After watching George Clooney's biopic of US broadcaster Ed Murrow, I'm thinking a few of today's British broadcasters should watch it too. Here's an actual Murrow quote that sums it up ...
"Just once in a while let us exalt in the importance of ideas and let us dream to the extent of saying that on any given Sunday night, the time normally occupied by Ed Sullivan is given over to a clinical survey on the state of American education, and a week or two later, the time normally used by Steve Allen is devoted to a thorough going study of American policy in the Middle East. Would the corporate image of their respective sponsors be damaged? Would the stockholders rise up in their wrath and complain? Would anything happen other than a few million people would have received a little illumination on subjects that may well determine the future of this country? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse, and insulate us . . . It is merely wires and lights in a box."
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