The Best Speakers Know Enough To Be

Most Of Them [american Politicians] Are Men Of Undoubted Charm, Ability, And Incredible Energy, And Yet Too Often They Lack Purpose Or Appetite For Anything Beyond Their Own Careers. With Few Notable Exceptions, They Are Simply Men Who Want To Be Loved.

The Newest Computer Can Merely Compound, At Speed, The Oldest Problem In The Relations Between Human Beings, And In The End The Communicator Will Be Confronted With The Old Problem, Of What To Say And How To Say It.

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.

The Fact That Your Voice, Amplified To The Degree Where It Reaches From One End Of The Country To The Other, Does Not Confer Upon You Greater Wisdom Than When Your Voice Reached Only From One End Of The Bar To The Other.

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.