Mass Media | Television is Not Corrupting American Society

As many of you know, there is a long tradition in this industry, and at gatherings such as these, which I have come to think of as the ritual mortification of the spirit at the hands of an angry prophet.

Year after year at gatherings of news directors and at convocations of publishers, editors, advertisers, reporters, correspondents, and other worthies, a speaker is invited to stand before a group such as this and decry the sure, steady descent to hell in a hand basket in which we—and you—are willing, eager passengers. I hope you will forgive me if that is an honor that, in...

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