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...speaker, Gilbert Seldes '14, author of "The Seven Lively Arts," emphasized the destructive potential of television, claiming that it can be an influence for conformity and stereotyped thinking. But Raymond Wittcoff, of the St. Louis Educational Television Commission, proposed that this threat could be avoided by presenting programs that bring local problems before the community...
...examples, Wittcoff suggested that a Board of Education meeting or a political debate could be presented on television, in order "to preserve the civilization of the dialogue in this era of the digest...