Jeff Greenfield Quotes

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

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

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.

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

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

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

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.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

Television is intensely personal.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

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.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

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.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

Television and I grew up together.

Television is the medium through which society communicates its democratic values.

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.

The fact that television is raising our moral conscience is a good thing.