Marshall Herskovitz Quotes

My main concern is my kids. And I don't want them to see or hear anything on TV that I didn't discuss with them.

I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

I don't watch the media that much.

I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

I don't think about the media.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.