Roone Arledge Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

TV's a pretty powerful thing.

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.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

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

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Television is a young person's medium.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

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

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.

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

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

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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.

Hollywood makes stuff that people absorb, and it lingers in your subconscious.

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.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.