There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

Quote by Henry Fairlie

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The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something...

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something...

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and...

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and...

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors...

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors...

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A...

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A...

Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through...

Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through...

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The...

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The...

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably...

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably...

The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with...

The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with...

Television is Democracy at it's ugliest.

Television is Democracy at it's ugliest.

He is television's sultan of splutter.

He is television's sultan of splutter.

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But...

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But...

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim...

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim...

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants,...

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants,...

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar...

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar...