Television is not the truth. Television’s a g..d... amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players.
We’re in the boredom-killing business.
-Howard Beale (Network)
Yep, someone tried to tell us in the mid 1900’s, when they told us it was called Tell-a-Vision, and that it involved ‘programming’. Of course, the programming was not the TV itself, the programming was what was being done to its viewers.