“Television, while it will be a tremendously warm and pleasant form of entertainment with a flavor of immediacy unique to it, will not be the post-war revolution that many people in show business have been predicting it would be. Television can do certain things very well: spontaneous quiz and other audience participation programs, round-tables at which argumentative eggheads shout each other down, rough-and-tumble comedy shows, short musical selections… Most important of all will be the special events telecast, in which ike and mike go out into the real world and communicate something which is actually happening and has an inherit drama; a boxing match, a race, a polictical parade, a session of congress [OJ Simpson in a Bronco].”
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