Fred Rogers Quotes

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

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.

I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

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.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

I have grown up in a small city where watching TV is a ritual and Balaji has defined TV in so many ways.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

I just don't like reality TV.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

Television has an unparalleled reach.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.

Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.

I don't like movies, TV shows, or books or anything that's preaching to the audience or speaking down to us.

Following America's lead, I think British TV is fantastic.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.