We are far more concerned with the ways in which television contributes to change than with mapping the obvious ways in which it maintains dominant viewpoints.

Horace NewComb & Paul M. Hirsch, “Television as a Cultural Forum” (1983)

the world of television is not quite so bizarre and repressive once we admit that it is the realm in which we allow our monsters to come out and play

(Horace Newcomb & Paul M. Hirsch, “Television as a Cultural Forum,” 564)