Meryl Streep Quotes

Why on earth does anybody watch that stuff [television violence]?

What we watch on television, we approve.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

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

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

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

I don't watch the media that much.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

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

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.

Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

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?

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

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

History must only guess at the effect that television would have had during earlier conflicts over the future of the nation.

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

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

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

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.