Fred Schneider Quotes

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

Psychologists even have a term for this: they talk about 'mean world syndrome'. People who have just seen too much of the news have become more cynical, more pessimistic, more anxious, even more depressive. So, yeah, I think that is something you need to be wary of.

I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

I don't watch the media that much.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise.