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kentuck

(111,094 posts)
Sun Dec 8, 2013, 06:13 PM Dec 2013

Television is in the "boredom-killing business".

"So you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a (expletive) amusement park. We're in the boredom-killing business. If you want the truth, go to yourselves! You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. This is mass madness. So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off and leave them off!"

Howard Beale from movie, Network.

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Television is in the "boredom-killing business". (Original Post) kentuck Dec 2013 OP
I remember that movie! I watched it on TV! NYC_SKP Dec 2013 #1
K&R for Prophet Chayefsky. It has come to pass. n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #2
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