"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news"

"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on"

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"