Sherri Saum Quotes

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

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.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

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

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

Hollywood makes stuff that people absorb, and it lingers in your subconscious.

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.

TV has always been a very strong and powerful medium for women.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

TV's a pretty powerful thing.

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

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.

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

TV and film has defined my entire life.

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.

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

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?

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.