“It’s the world’s biggest something.” –an insult aimed at television, spoken by Charles Van Doren in the 1994 Best Picture nominee Quiz Show
Charles Van Doren–a real life character who had inside knowledge about television during its early years.
“…a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right…Time makes more converts than reason.”
“In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves; that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off the true character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day.” –from Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The World’s Biggest Social Contagion
December 1, 2024 by Blogging For 20 Years • History, Society, Television • 0 Comments
“It’s the world’s biggest something.” –an insult aimed at television, spoken by Charles Van Doren in the 1994 Best Picture nominee Quiz Show
Charles Van Doren–a real life character who had inside knowledge about television during its early years.
“…a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right…Time makes more converts than reason.”
“In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves; that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off the true character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day.” –from Common Sense by Thomas Paine