NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber.
actually Steve, upon TV’s arrival, it was proclaimed a universal good. It was held that at last all the world could see the world. That museums and theatre would be presented to a wider audience than ever before. That the arts, literature, world knowledge would increase. That this was a university for all. It would become the greatest tower of knowledge ever built.
It doesn’t appear to be much more, after fifty years, than a well hung, well lit, flashing window brought to you by the following sponsors.
This is something that someone who follows arts & their arrival, having more than a media memory of this world should know. & I do.
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