In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Tom C. Clark

Tom C. Clark

Related Quotes

Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.

— Bill C. Davis

Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me.

— Bill C. Davis

AudiencesInspiration

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

— Tom C. Clark

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

— Tom C. Clark

CoverageForeignInevitably

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. -TOM C. CLARK.

— Tom C. Clark