Drummond Money-Coutts Quotes

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

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

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

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.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

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 and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

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.

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

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.

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

The truth of television is that what people see, they believe.

The highest power of television journalism is not the transmission of information but the transmission of experience.

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

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