Television is a gorgeous girl led astray early in life by a travelling salseman. She is taken round the country as a come-on for his detergent...
...for every shining hour there are days and weeks of dross...
He stated that networks trimmed content according to
Moron's Law: that what is most popular is also best...bad tatse and complacency sell goods.
From the biography by Nick Clarke (quotations date from the early 1960s)
1 comment:
Mr Badger,
I have the dvd's of Mr Cooke's celebrated programme, AC's America and they are clearly a cut above what he was criticising. Worth getting hold of...
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