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Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society. -- Richard J. Daley
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings. -- Bill Moyers
Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society. -- Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed. -- Michio Kaku
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.' -- Robert Winston
When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society. -- Alex Steffen
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. -- Howard Zinn
I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry. -- Helen Mirren
All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good. -- Ray McKinnon
Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in society and the structure of the American family. It's about time our laws caught up. We watch 'Modern Family' on television, but we're still living by 'Leave It To Beaver' rules. -- Thomas Perez
Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past. -- Janet Street-Porter
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. -- Ted Turner
Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube. -- Ed Rollins
Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open" -- Serge Daney
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. -- Raymond Chandler
I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me. -- Tony Todd
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior. -- Jerry Springer
If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms. -- Ray Bradbury
The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society? -- Jeremy Paxman
We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth. -- Andrew Denton
It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.' -- Thomas Sowell

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