Jean Baudrillard Quotes

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.

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.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

American television really is pathetic.

When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

There's not a lot of light on television.

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.

I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.

I hate to say this about television, since I have a television show, but it's just mind-numbing to me.

Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.

All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

I got into television because I hated it so. And I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

What we watch on television, we approve.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

On the whole, I don't watch television.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

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.

In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.