David Bowie Quotes

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

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters and somehow we must find some new way of using radio and television to allow us to talk to each other.

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.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don't need to be subsidizing PBS. It's time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with 'Dora the Explorer' and 'Bob the Builder.'

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

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

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.

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.

It is inconceivable that we should allow so great a possibility for service, for news, for entertainment, and for vital commercial purposes to be drowned in advertising chatter.

Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.

Media really excited me. As an undergrad, I majored in radio, television, and film and did internships with CNBC and CNN. My first job was at Sky News in London.

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

If you're an adult who takes 'Made in Chelsea' seriously, I suggest you take a look at yourself.

We're going to fisk the 'New York Times.'

I don't watch TV. I don't listen to radio.

Adults should be intelligent enough to know what they want - if you don't like it, then don't consume it. A rating system for kids and teens is more important. Especially for violent shows.

I love a web series. But to me, it does the girl in Detroit a disservice who just watches television. It does a disservice to the girl on the south side of Chicago who doesn't go online.

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

As a parent, you're struggling to find stuff that you think is suitable for the kids, but also stuff that you'd like to watch with them.

It would be a shame if the BBC didn't exist.

As an independent skeptical of all news stations and wanting to understand diverse perspectives, I tend to navigate between CNN, ABC, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, and yes, FOX.

I guess with a Netflix show, if you're a kid, it's all dependent on how you're raised and if you have access to it.