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produce an effect . So was the TV quiz show. But with the TV
effect there is deep audience participation . Movie and drama do
not permit as much participation as that afforded by the
mosaic mesh of the TV image. So great was the audience
participation in the quiz shows that the directors of the show
were prosecuted as con men. Moreover, press and radio ad
interests, bitter about the success of the new TV medium, were
delighted to lacerate the flesh of their rivals. Of course the
riggers had been blithely unaware of the nature of their
medium, and had given it the movie treatment of intense
realism, instead of the softer mythic focus proper to TV.
Charles Van Doren merely got clobbered as an innocent
bystander, and the whole investigation elicited no insight into
the nature or effects of the TV medium. Regrettably, it simply
provided a field day for the earnest moralizers. A moral point of
view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in