This suggests that someone is writing and feeling this show, not just filling in the space between commercials. They are the locales of undisguised moral, social and personal conflicts, the centers where life begins and ends and God's presence is felt, where the issues congregate and crystallize, where we are most likely to find heroes and cowards, people who understand and people who don't and never will. We are in for about six months of the most negative and quarrelsome political TV commercials we have ever seen. The V-chip won't work. Unlike movies, TV, with 168 hours of programs per channel per week, is simply too vast to rate in simple categories.
Few issues are more misunderstood than the moral effects of art.
A bigger question is why anybody cares. Ah, we complain about time passing and forgetting things, but they can also be a blessing. If we all try hard enough, we can forget The Gong Show all over again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please visit our e-mail directory . St. Anthony Messenger Press.