We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass...
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Edward R. Murrow:
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.
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We have a built in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information
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Our mass media reflect this
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But unless we get up off our fat surpluses
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and recognize that television in the main
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is being used to distract delude amuse and insulate us
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then television and those who finance it
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those who look at it and those who work at it
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may see a totally different picture too late
Clip duration: 27 seconds
Views: 183
Timestamp in movie: 00h 04m 57s
Uploaded: 28 March, 2022
Genres: biography, drama, history
Summary: Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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