What's worse, they did everything out in the open. They wanted us to believe that June and Ward, along with Lucy and Desi, and Ozzie and Harriet ALL slept in twin beds. And nobody said a word. They taught us that every problem we might have in our desolate lives can be solved in 30 to 60 minutes increments and no more. Unless its a ''special.'' We just stood there. Eyes glued, mouths agape.
By the 1960s people began to castigate teevee. Remarking how pedestrian is really is. A waste of time good only for selling aluminum siding, cake mixes and 24-hour deodorants. An early FCC Chairman, called television: ''A vast wasteland.'' It only got worse from there.
Frank Lloyd Wright once famously said, ''Television is chewing gum for the mind.'' It's time to spit it out.....
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What's worse, they did
What's worse, they did everything out in the open. They wanted us to believe that June and Ward, along with Lucy and Desi, and Ozzie and Harriet ALL slept in twin beds. And nobody said a word. They taught us that every problem we might have in our desolate lives can be solved in 30 to 60 minutes increments and no more. Unless its a ''special.'' We just stood there. Eyes glued, mouths agape.
By the 1960s people began to castigate teevee. Remarking how pedestrian is really is. A waste of time good only for selling aluminum siding, cake mixes and 24-hour deodorants. An early FCC Chairman, called television: ''A vast wasteland.'' It only got worse from there.