What I am asking is that he [the user] set up a dialogue with these media, that he fight back, that you should not sit there watching TV, that you should have a real dialogue with it and explain to it what it is, and that you are not going to be taken in by it one little bit….This has nothing to do with programming. This has to do with this coming at you [in] “Lord of the Flies” [manner].
TV Interview with Eric F. Goldman, “The Open Mind, WNBC TV, 1966. Transcript, p 19
Year: 1966
Compiled by William Kuhns
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