"It is my desire - if not my duty - to talk to you journeymen with some candor about what is happening to radio & television..."
All things old are new again.
I stole this from DHP, but he doesn't mind.
The original box office bomb of a movie, which is the backdrop for Ed Driscoll's morality tale, attempted to describe the warnings of a cultural wasteland, and the mind numbing atrophy inherent in electronic media.
Ed uses it to describe the warnings of a cultural wasteland, and the mind numbing atrophy of modern journalism.
5:54 of superb insight from Ed Driscoll dot com.
It ain't called 'the idiot box' for nothing.
DHP gives a very good commentary here.
