Category: television...

• choosing programs you particularly want to watch and then turning off the television when they are over
• substituting an hour on the meditation cushion for an hour on the couch watching television
• supporting educational and public television
• television extends the senses of vision and hearing beyond the limits of physical distance
• the accidental discovery in 1872 that light could be changed into an electrical signal eventually led to the invention of TV
• Television? The word is half Greek and half Latin. No good will come of it. (CP Scott)
• Television tells a story in a way that requires no imagination; the picture on the screen and the sound provide all we need to know-there is nothing to fill in. Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure-not that it's passive, but that it offers so little opportunity for reflection and contemplation. At the beach-or reading a book, or listening to Vivaldi-our attention shifts from sight to smell to sound at will. The mind wanders in and out of the scene. The physical sensations stimulate thoughts, memories and reflections. These interruptions are an integral part of the experience of relaxing. Watching television, on the other hand, is focused, structured, and scheduled. (Witold Rybczynski)
• Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. (M. Muggeridge)
• I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. (G. Marx)
• the top-rated program each year is usually the Super Bowl

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