"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events"
- Will McDonough
About this Quote
Will McDonough's quote speaks to the power of television to bring current occasions into our residences. Tv has the capacity to show us events as they are occurring, allowing us to experience them in genuine time. This immediacy of tv can be a powerful device for informing us of what is occurring in the world. It can also be a powerful device for connecting us to events that we might not have actually had the ability to experience otherwise. Television can bring us into the residences of individuals in various other countries, allowing us to acquire a better understanding of their lives and cultures. Television can additionally be a powerful tool for increasing awareness of vital issues as well as motivating us to do something about it. Basically, Will McDonough's quote speaks to the power of tv to bring present occasions into our houses and also to influence us to do something about it.
This quote is written / told by Will McDonough between July 6, 1935 and January 9, 2003. He/she was a famous Writer from USA.
The author also have 21 other quotes.
"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"
"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone"
"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 sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens"
"Janet Reno, during her confirmation hearings, said she would come down harder on porno, and lately she's talked about how violence on television has an effect on violence in the real world"
"I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent"
