Television (n.) is, in fact, possessed of a profoundly civilizing aspect in that it compels people to look like people... it replaces the abstract idea of the other with something more concrete.
Television (n.) is like a telescope, a new method of perception which tells us more, but also makes what it sees look cold, dead, and inconceivably remote.
Television (n.) is so close to an objectified dream world.
Television (n.) illustrates more vividly than any other medium the fact that we participate in society dramatically more than we do conceptually.
Television (n.) is very similar to the structuring of fiction, both falling into much the same dramatic conventions.
The Television (n.) is so much more introverted than even the movie, and the movie in turn more introverted than the concert hall or the stage.