Bragg says his cause is the arts and their preservation. TV offers to preserve art and artist's work, through for example, interviews of and teaching of the cultural icons of our time - Lawrence Olivier, David Lean, Steven Spielberg, Toni Morrison, Kiri Te Kanawa. If the public is truly to be sovereign then it must be given power. That power is knowledge. If television can become the bringer of knowledge then the world will be a safer place for intelligence and a place which recognizes and explores the boundless variety of human experience.
Television can do that .
All it needs is the will. Moderator Canadian Laurier L. LaPierre. David Asper VP Programming CanWest Global Broadcasting, Jeff Cole of UCLA's Center of Communication Policy, Canadian columnist William Gold, Keith Spicer Chairman CRTC Canada. A lively and interesting discussion about the disadvantages and merits of the V-Chip, a Canadian invention which allows parents to program television for their children. Canada's regulatory agency, the CRTC, is leading the way it says, for parents to determine the amount of sex and violence their children should watch, or in short, take charge of family values.