Wayne Rogers Quotes

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

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

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

I am the slime oozing out from your TV set. You will obey me while I lead you, and eat the garbage while I feed you.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

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

Television is a young person's medium.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

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

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

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.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

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.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

Slogans are both exciting and comforting, but they are also powerful opiates for the conscience.