There is no area of human endeavour on which we get a greater variety of opinions than on broadcasting, for the simple reason that everybody not only is but feels involved - as a listener and/or viewer, a broadcaster, or one who hates it all and makes a moral issue of it: I know more than one respectable mind who refuses to have a television set in the house - for his family's sake and indeed his own. With a fair measure of boredom, then, the reader will expect yet another opinion from me - or rather, not another: by now, it is impossible for any opinion to be new.

LRB 7 August 1980 | PDF Download