failure to tackle hot issues. Howard K. Smith observed: “The 
networks are delighted if you go into a controversy in a country 
14,000 miles away. They don’t want real controversy, real 
dissent, at home.” For people conditioned to the hot newspaper 
medium, which is concerned with the clash of views , rather 
than involvement in depth  in a situation, the TV behavior is 
inexplicable.

     Such a hot news item that concerns TV directly was 
headlined “It finally happened—a British film with English 
subtitles to explain the dialects.” The film in question is the 
British comedy “Sparrows Don’t Sing.” A glossary of Yorkshire, 
Cockney, and other slang phrases has been printed for the 
customers so that they can figure out just what the subtitles 
mean. Sub subtitles are as handy an indicator of the depth 
effects of TV as the new “rugged” styles in feminine attire. One