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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