[They favor] flashy packages of bite-size stories that are to serious journalism what McNuggets are to a full-course dinner. |
He was both [television's] first celebrity and its most persistent conscience. |
Max Headroom, if overly exposed, could end up as just another Muppet Nothing would be more distressing than to witness a brilliant parody of TV turn into a TV cliche. |
No soap opera has so engrossingly captured the wondrous banality of the human condition. |
Titanic clashes in this video courtroom are likely to swirl around botched paint jobs, unshoveled sidewalks, defective toasters, aggressive guard dogs and every conceivable, and sometimes inconceivable, mishap involving a dry cleaner. |