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When The Politicians Complain That Tv Turns The Proceedings Into A Circus, It Should Be Made Clear That The Circus Was Already There, And That Tv Has Merely Demonstrated That Not All The Performers Are Well Trained.

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.

The Newest Computer Can Merely Compound, At Speed, The Oldest Problem In The Relations Between Human Beings, And In The End The Communicator Will Be Confronted With The Old Problem, Of What To Say And How To Say It.

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.

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.