Recounting the birth and history of See It Now and its denouement.. as pressures became more overt re 'controversial' topics. His tone was more ironic than sarcastic. A sad commentary and further proof of how obvious it always has been -

IF.. 'information' is tied to selling by even the most tenuous threads, it can never rise above homogenized sensationalist crap. It seems that we were doomed to there eventually being.. a FOX 'News', within months of Murrow's Harvest of Shame broadcast (re the treatment of ag workers across the US) - and within minutes of his broadcast taking on McCarthy; many believe that broadcast catalyzed the final, forever embarrassingly-late official censure by the Senate.

But it may not have sold much Ipana to the many (my Gramma among) who idolized this malevolent sot (literally).

Collectively we are such simpering Wimps.. a nation of Babbitts - the first PHB.


Ashton