And How. Still. Always.
“We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.”
In some ways, I’m awfully glad Murrow didn’t live long enough to see all his predictions keep coming true.
[...] [via Maggie Shnayerson] [...]