"Our history will be what we make of it. And if there are any historians about 50 or 100 years from now, and there should be the kinescopes of one week of all three networks, the will there find, recorded in black and white, and in color, evidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable, and complacent. We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television, those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who look at it may see a totally different picture, too late."

Quoted from the character Edward R. Murrow from the recent film Good Night, and Good Luck