We Will Not Be Driven

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.

It Has Always Seemed To Me The Real Art In This Business Is Not So Much Moving Information Or Guidance Or Policy Five Or 10,000 Miles. That Is An Electronic Problem. The Real Art Is To Move It The Last Three Feet In Face To Face Conversation.

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.

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.

I Have Always Been On The Side Of The Heretics, Against Those Who Burned Them, Because The Heretics So Often Turned Out To Be Right....dead, But Right.