Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

Every political persuasion has something they want to get off the screen.

Violent content on television is more dangerous to children than indecency.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

What we watch on television, we approve.

I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.

Television was essentially my college.

Some things I see on television, I think, 'Oh my gosh, they're showing that now?' wow.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Why on earth does anybody watch that stuff [television violence]?

If you see anything scary on television, you can turn it off.

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

The White House expansion to control the entire corpus of the News was the direct result of television.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.