To make sophisticated use of the electronic media
A number of years ago, when I still thought something could be done with television news, I approached Larry Tisch, then the president of CBS, with what I thought was an intelligent proposal for a public affairs program that brought an historical perspective to the day’s events. He listened politely to the pitch and then waved it off by asking whether I ever watched television, or whether anyone I knew ever watched television. Not often, I said, not when I could avoid it. Neither do I, said Tisch; neither does anybody else with anything better to do. Television, he said, was for people who were too poor, too lazy or depressed, to do anything else. Tisch at the time was chairman of New York University, a man who raised enormous amounts of money for higher education. Apparently he also knew about the several studies showing that people who spend a lot of time watching television suffer a physical sense of ill-being.
Civic Discourse, Intellectual Life
And Cultural Asphyxiation In A TV Nation.
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