[clearsight]

Often suspected that subliminal information was being implanted in our heads to make us conform without a fight.

[Abcdefg]

A TV set is just a bullsh*t box.

[brityank]

Same old, same old.

This is an edited version of Newton Minow's speech to the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961:

When television is good, nothing--not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers--nothing is better.

But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

[brityank]

Media insight.

[Turbopilot]

The guy started off with a reasonable point - there's a lot of junk on TV - and somehow veered W-A-A-A-A-A-A-Y off track...other than "the moon landings were fake!" I think he hit every note on the Billboard Top 40 Conspiracies. What was his point, other than crazy-talk?

Sorry. My TV must've made me say that.

[Restorer]

Of that number, thousands succumbed to outright panic, not waiting to hear Welles' explanation at the end of the program that it had all been a Halloween prank.

It was not a prank, it was a dramatic presentation. That it was not real was announced at the beginning of the show and a couple of times during the program, not just at the end.