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# {{lb|en|slang|derogatory|uncommon}} {{synonym of|en|television}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1990|title=When Television was Young, Primetime Canada, 1952-1967|author=Paul Rutherford|page=423|passage=Why should so much of television be a '''cultural barbiturate''', a tranquilizer for the ills and anxieties of our age?}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=2002|title=The Plug-In Drug - Television, Computers, and Family Life|author=Marie Winn|page=36|passage=Critics mockingly refer to television as a "'''cultural barbiturate'''" and joke about "mainlining the tube."}} |
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2002|title=The Plug-In Drug - Television, Computers, and Family Life|author=Marie Winn|page=36|passage=Critics mockingly refer to television as a "'''cultural barbiturate'''" and joke about "mainlining the tube."}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=2005|title=Media Power, Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?|author=Robert Stein|page=23|passage=For almost a quarter of a century, the medium has been used, in the words of Jack Gould of the ''New York Times'', as a "'''cultural barbiturate'''" that "kills time efficiently and economically".}} |
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Latest revision as of 19:42, 17 May 2024
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- (slang, derogatory, uncommon) Synonym of television
- 1990, Paul Rutherford, When Television was Young, Primetime Canada, 1952-1967, page 423:
- Why should so much of television be a cultural barbiturate, a tranquilizer for the ills and anxieties of our age?
- 2002, Marie Winn, The Plug-In Drug - Television, Computers, and Family Life, page 36:
- Critics mockingly refer to television as a "cultural barbiturate" and joke about "mainlining the tube."
- 2005, Robert Stein, Media Power, Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?, page 23:
- For almost a quarter of a century, the medium has been used, in the words of Jack Gould of the New York Times, as a "cultural barbiturate" that "kills time efficiently and economically".