A Steven Bochco quote from Robert J. Thompson's Television's Second Golden Age, 1997:
Traditionally television is not an art medium. It's not really an entertainment medium. It is really a commercial sales medium. It does not want to do anything to encourage controversy or distress. The ideal piece of programming for selling things, I suppose, lulls you into a pleasant sense of well-being, and that's what some of the most successful people in this business have done. There's nothing wrong with that, but they're entrepreneurs, not artists. That's not what I want to do.
Pay no attention to that Cop Rock behind the curtain.
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