Good Night, And Good Luck.

Your Voice, Amplified To The Degree Where It Reaches From One End Of The Country To The Other, Does Not Confer Upon You Greater Wisdom Than When Your Voice Reached Only From One End Of The Bar To The Other.

We Hardly Need To Be Reminded That We Are Living In An Age Of Confusion - A Lot Of Us Have Traded In Our Beliefs For Bitterness And Cynicism Or For A Heavy Package Of Despair, Or Even A Quivering Portion Of Hysteria. Opinions Can Be Picked Up Cheap In The Market Place While Such Commodities As Courage And Fortitude And Faith Are In Alarmingly Short Supply.

Our History Will Be What We Make Of It. If We Go On As We Are, Then History Will Take Its Revenge And Retribution Will Not Limp In Catching Up With Us. So, Just Once In A While Let Us Exhault The Importance Of Ideas And Information.

We Have Currently A Built-in Allergy To Unpleasant Or Disturbing Information. Our Mass Media Reflect This. But Unless We Get Up Off Our Fat Surpluses And Recognize That Television In The Main Is Being Used To Distract, Delude, Amuse, And Insulate Us, Then Television And Those Who Finance It, Those Who Look At It, And Those Who Work At It, May See A Totally Different Picture Too Late.

American Traditions And The American Ethic Require Us To Be Truthful, But The Most Important Reason Is That Truth Is The Best Propaganda And Lies Are The Worst. To Be Persuasive We Must Be Believable; To Be Believable We Must Be Credible; To Be Credible We Must Be Truthful. It Is As Simple As That.