Jessica Savitch Quotes

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

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

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

I liked television, and television liked me.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

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

Entertainment and information work well together.

Television and I grew up together.

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

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.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

Television wasn't prestigious.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

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

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.

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.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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

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