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)
Mr Badger,
ReplyDeleteI 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...