We Must Not Confuse Dissent

I Have Said, And I Believe, That Potentially We Have In This Country A Free Enterprise System Of Radio And Television Which Is Superior To Any Other. But To Achieve Its Promise, It Must Be Both Free And Enterprising. There Is No Suggestion Here That Networks Or Individual Stations Should Operate As Philanthropies. But I Can Find Nothing In The Bill Of Rights Or In The Communications Act Which Says That They Must Increase Their Net Profits Each Year, Lest The Republic Collapse.

In Order To Progress, Radio Need Only Go Backward, To The Time When Singing Commercials Were Not Allowed On News Reports, When There Was No Middle Commercial On A News Report, When Radio Was Rather Proud, Alert And Fast.

Our Major Obligation Is Not To Mistake Slogans For Solutions.

I Have No Feud, Either With My Employers, Any Sponsors, Or With The Professional Critics Of Radio And Television. But I Am Seized With An Abiding Fear Regarding What These Two Instruments Are Doing To Our Society, Our Culture And Our Heritage.

A Nation Of Sheep Will Beget A Government Of Wolves.