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The movie Good Night and Good Luck tells of the fateful battle between Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy and See it Now’s host Edward Murrow. Unlike ancient times this battle was not fought with weaponry and sly tactics, but the use of television and arguments. Edward Murrow recites a speech: Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. I invite your attention to the television schedules of all networks between the hours of 8 and 11 p.m., Eastern Time. Here you will find only fleeting and spasmodic reference to the fact that this nation is in mortal danger. There are, it is true, occasional informative programs presented in that intellectual ghetto on Sunday afternoons. But during the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in whic...

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