Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

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

I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.

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

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 has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

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

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

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

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.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

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

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

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.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

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

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

Television is a young person's medium.