A Thing Of Orchestrated Hell-a Terrible Symphony

This Instrument [radio] Can Teach. It Can Illuminate, Yes, And It Can Even Inspire. But It Can Do So Only To The Extent That Humans Are Determined To Use It To Those Ends. Otherwise It's Nothing But Wires And Lights In A Box.

I Am Seized With An Abiding Fear Regarding What These Two Instruments Are Doing To Our Society, Our Culture And Our Heritage. Our History Will Be What We Make It. And If There Are Any Historians About Fifty Or A Hundred Years From Now, And There Should Be Preserved The Kinescopes For One Week Of All Three Networks, They Will There Find Recorded In Black And White, Or Color, Evidence Of Decadence, Escapism And Insulation From The Realities Of The World In Which We Live.

Tuberculosis, Starvation, Fatigue, And There Are Many Who Have No Desire To Live.

Just Once In A While, Let Us Exalt The Importance Of Ideas And Information.

There Is A Mental Fear, Which Provokes Others Of Us To See The Images Of Witches In A Neighbor's Yard And Stampedes Us To Burn Down This House. And There Is A Creeping Fear Of Doubt, Doubt Of What We Have Been Taught, Of The Validity Of So Many Things We Had Long Since Taken For Granted To Be Durable And Unchanging. It Has Become More Difficult Than Ever To Distinguish Black From White, Good From Evil, Right From Wrong.