#levis

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#broadcasts #conferences #doing #going #i

Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life. ↗

— Robert Fraser

#beside #between #kept #larger #life

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets. ↗

— Richard Russo

#america #american #american culture #culture #front

In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we’re in nature. They can even influence how we raise our kids, how we vote and volunteer in our communities, as well as the future of our wildlands and wildlife. If the stories they create are misleading or false in some way, viewers will misunderstand the issues and react in inappropriate ways. People who consume a heavy diet of wildlife films filled with staged violence and aggression, for example, are likely to think about nature as a circus or a freak show. They certainly won’t form the same positive connections to the natural world as people who watch more thoughtful, authentic, and conservation-oriented films. ↗

— Chris Palmer

#conservation #film #television #tv #wildlife

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#employ #fat #i #myself #never

I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason--telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute. ↗

— Dave Hickey

#unemployment #art

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 Cave

#nick-cave #spin-magazine #television #music

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing. ↗

— Neil Postman

#elections #irrelevance #media #nate-silver #news

When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things. ↗

— Lewis Nordan

#television #age

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument? ↗

— Adolph Zukor

#because #here #instrument #lose #our