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8 Text — Robert W. Sarnoff
to Middle Eastern countries where television has not yet emerged, I found it generally anticipated with a sense of excitement; but I also found some uneasiness over its advent in some high quarters as a result of misconceptions and distortions about television in the United States.
In the scope, variety and vitality of its service, American television far outstrips any system that has developed in other countries. The interest of foreign broadcasters and audiences alike in American programs speaks for itself as a measure of our accomplish¬ ment and a sign of the respect in which our service is held overseas.
I do not question that our programs prompt some criticism abroad, just as they do at home. I do not question that some of our output deserves criticism, and I know that much of what we do can be improved. It is impossible to conceive of any program service on the scale of a mass medium that would fail to create some differences and disapproval. But whatever the criticism, it certainly cannot justify the exertion of official influence, no matter how indirect, upon the television program process at home or the distribution of programs abroad. It would be as unthinkable to place controls on the export of American programs as it would be to curb the foreign distribution of the New York Times or Time Magazine, which also circulate through¬ out the free world. And it seems just as unthinkable to shape American programs for export as it would be to suggest that the Times or Time Magazine slant their reports with an eye to the impression they might create on foreign readers.
By the very nature of a free society, we stand before the world, "warts and all." We can no more hide our flaws, nor should we want to, than we can hide the crack in the Liberty Bell. What America
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