“Television is to blame for exactly 57 percent of America’s civic ills. I could prove it if I had the space. Television came of age at a time when Americans were becoming more mobile geographically and spiritually. We moved around more and lived with family and lifetime confidantes less. We rejected tradition, inherited values and philosophic perspectives on life. Television is one of the things that filled the vacuum. And then it promptly made the vacuum bigger.

For some reason, television, and all non-ancient media as far as I can tell, brings out the worst in us, not the best. It preys rather than elevates. But blaming television is silly; it is a mirror. We have seen the enemy and it is us. We ought to suck it up and admit it.” — Dick Meyer, author and Friend of Your Humble Blogger, and a man who makes me feel deliriously happy about working in television.