Chris Gethard Quotes

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

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

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

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

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

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

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

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

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

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.

The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.

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 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 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.

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.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

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 media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

When I went through puberty I had a huge rebellion against movies. I was so upset with how they brainwashed me that I didn't watch movies for years.

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

I agree when people say TV is regressive. I would go back to TV only for the money.