¶ Television
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Television:
“Television is important, not that it has a name, but because it is a way in which man individually has been able-- as a young child-- to get information from around the whole world. The parents used to bring home all the news, Daddy and Mommy. They don’t bring home the news now. They come home and the kids tell them what the news is because television is giving it from around the world. And the people who get their jobs in television-- like yourself-- get it by virtue of your diction and your vocabulary and your versatility in using it. So that the authority for the news-- what’s going on-- is coming to the young world over the television or the radio, and coming with better diction and vocabulary than the parents usually have. So the child then emulates the communication pattern of those who give him the most reliable information. So it’s not a matter of the parents not loving their children or children not loving their parents, but children are now really peeling off and saying intuitively: I see that man can do anything he needs to do; our parents are locally preoccupied, they have apologies and say we can’t afford to do that. We see that man can’t afford to do anything else but make his world work. That’s the spirit of the young people.”
¶ Citations
- RBF in Edward Newman TV Interview, transcript pp. 38-39, 73
