What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W.H. AudenTags: entertainment consumerism television mass-media
I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.
Nick CaveTags: music television nick-cave spin-magazine
If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
Dorothy GambrellTags: television internet metaphor library librarian
Kill your television!
Paul Thomas AndersonTags: television tv
You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
Ron JeremyTags: television masturbation pornography
For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.
Jonathan LethemTags: humor writing television postmodernism modernism pop-culture
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
Stephen ChboskyTags: reading funny television friday
The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.
P.D. JamesTags: trust television
I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.
Chuck PalahniukTags: life television
Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Robert MacNeilTags: television tv
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