“Soon it will be achieved. The lie of television has been that there are contexts to which television will grant an access. Since lies last, usually, no more than one generation, television will re-form around the idea that television itself is a context to which television will grant an access.”
Within the Context of No Context (1980)
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“Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.”
Network (1976)
Context: Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”
Attributed in Newsweek, 14 January 1980.

Interview in 1979, quoted in The Online Copywriter's Handbook (2002) by Robert W. Bly, p. 19

2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)

“There are more whipped guys on television than there were on the Amistad.”
Midlife Vices (2009)

“And then along came Satan’s Eye Itself. Television.”
He laughed, as at some fatal irony. “Don’t you hear the evil hum of the word, the knell of Satan? Television! It’s the ruling character of your lives, like the moon must have been for Indians. An oracle, a companion, a signal of the changing seasons. But rather than divine illumination, each night it spews forth Satan’s imagery. Murders, car crashes, mad policemen, perverted strangers! And you lie there decomposing in its flickering, blue-gray light, absorbing His horrid fantasies!”
Source: Green Eyes (1984), Chapter 10, p. 115
“Howard Wise is one of the people who is responsible for the idea of an alternative television.”
Frank Gillette, interview with Marita Sturken, Nov. 11, 1983, cited in: Marita Sturken. " TV as a Creative Medium: Howard Wise and Video Art http://www.vasulka.org/archive/4-30c/AfterImageMay84(1004).pdf," in: Afterimage, May 1984

“The revolution will not be televised.”
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Lyrics, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, 1970