Radio through television becomes a species of Cinema. Why shouldn't Cinema, in turn, become a species of radio?

Radio was theater of the mind.

The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

I think the key image of the 20th century is the man in the motor car. It sums up everything: the elements of speed, drama, aggression, the junction of advertising and consumer goods with the technological landscape. The sense of violence and desire, power and energy; the shared experience of moving together through an elaborately signalled landscape. We spend a substantial part of our lives in the motor car, and the experience of driving condenses many of the experiences of being a human being in the 1970s, the marriage of the physical aspects of ourselves with the imaginative and technological aspects of our lives. I think the 20th century reaches its highest expression on the highway. Everything is there: the speed and violence of our age; the strange love affair with the machine, with its own death.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

… the cinema and the radio and the effect they have had in weakening the impulse to spiritual effort

Radio puts one in a position of influence. Many people look up to you for guidance. This makes one humble, because you cannot give people advice when you do not practice what you preach.

The media has a big role in people’s lives.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Broadcasting is a development with which the future must reckon and reckon seriously. Here is an instrument of almost incalculable importance in the social and political life of the community, in affairs national and international.

Radio is an important tool in the lives of human beings because it depends on the knowledge of human beings. It gives us a chance to listen to songs, stories. It gives us a chance to share opinions and a space to talk about life around us.

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

One of the many effects of television on radio has been to shift radio from an entertainment medium into a kind of nervous information system. (p. 298)