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she declared that she wouldn't have an idiot box in her home
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Column: Streamers profited when ‘the idiot box’ became art.
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
All that, somehow, without Truman himself ever switching on the idiot box.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
Television Column: Streamers profited when ‘the idiot box’ became art.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
But the idiot box has also inspired arguably his worst projects, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The Newsroom, sanctimonious and stupefyingly self-serious accounts of the woes of content creation.
—Jason Bailey, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
All those childhood years in front of the idiot box could now be considered research — a lifetime of training, cleverly disguised as sloth.
—Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
Sometimes, television gets insulted as a vast wasteland or idiot box.
—Freep.com, 8 May 2020
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
All that, somehow, without Truman himself ever switching on the idiot box.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
Television Column: Streamers profited when ‘the idiot box’ became art.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
But the idiot box has also inspired arguably his worst projects, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The Newsroom, sanctimonious and stupefyingly self-serious accounts of the woes of content creation.
—Jason Bailey, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
All those childhood years in front of the idiot box could now be considered research — a lifetime of training, cleverly disguised as sloth.
—Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
Sometimes, television gets insulted as a vast wasteland or idiot box.
—Freep.com, 8 May 2020
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“Idiot box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiot%20box. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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