History Quotes / Television

-->-- '''Ernie Kovacs'''

-->--''Series/QuantumLeap'', "Moments to Live"

-->--'''Arthur C. Clarke'''

-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', "The Twenty-Ninth Republican Convention"

-->--'''Creator/EBWhite''', ''Harper's Bazaar'', 1938

-->--'''Creator/TSEliot'''

-->--'''Neil Postman'''

-->--ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes

-->--''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''

-->--'''Howard Beale''', ''Film/{{Network}}''

-->--'''Bowser Koopa''', ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld''

-->--'''Ernie Kovacs'''

-->--'''"Television and the Public Interest," also known as "The Wasteland Speech," given by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow''' to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, May 9, 1961.

->-- '''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'''

->-- '''Creator/GrouchoMarx'''

->--'''Arthur C. Clarke'''

->--'''Creator/EBWhite''', ''Harper's Bazaar'', 1938

->--'''[[Creator/TSEliot T.S. Eliot]]'''

->--'''Neil Postman'''

->--'''Creator/RodSerling'''

->-- '''Joel Robinson''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''

->--'''E. B. White''', ''Harper's Bazaar'', 1938

->''"The fact that television personalities so notoriously took precedence over the politicians at Miami Beach was noted with sour wonder by journalists who have begun to fear that their rendering of events into lines of linear type may prove to be as irrelevant an exercise as turning contemporary literature into Greek. The fact that in a hotel lobby it was [[{{CBS}} Eric Severeid]] not John Tower who collected a crowd was thought to be a sign of the essential light-mindedness of the electorate. Yet Severeid belongs to the country in a way few politicians ever do. Only UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan among the politicians at Miami exerted the same spell, and for the same reason: he is a bona fide star of the ''Series/LateShow'', equally ubiquitous, equally mythic."''

->-- '''GrouchoMarx'''

-->--'''"The Wasteland Speech", given by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow''' to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, May 9, 1961.

->''"Y'know, with this digital technology, the suckiness comes through with great clarity."''
->--'''Mike Nelson''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''

->''"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."''
->-- '''Gore Vidal'''

->'''Calvin:''' It says here that "religion is the opiate of the masses." What do you suppose that means?
->'''Television set:''' (It means Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet.)

-->--''QuantumLeap'', "Moments to Live"

->--'''Mike Nelson''', ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''

->--'''RodSerling'''

->-- '''Joel Robinson''', ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''

-->--CalvinAndHobbes

-->--''{{Garfield}}''

-->--'''Howard Beale''', ''{{Network}}''

->-- '''Inuyasha'''
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->--'''[[TSEliot T.S. Eliot]]'''

-->--'''"The Wasteland Speech", given by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, May 9, 1961.'''

->When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. '''I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.''' You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly commercials — many screaming, cajoling, and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you'll see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, I only ask you to try it.

-->--'''"The Wasteland Speech", given by Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961.'''

->''"Lemmie think. What did I learn in the real world? What's the one thing most likely to rot people's minds and reduce their brains to mashed potatoes? I remember now - television!"''

-->--'''Bowser Koopa''', ''Series/SuperMarioWorld''

->--'''E. B. White''', ''Harper's Bazaar''