ABSTRACT
There is an assumption that radio and television must necessarily, of their nature, provide a means of expression and self-expression for a tiny group addressing a vast multitude. The French nation is one of a number which have failed to find a suitable point of intellectual and political balance on which to build the powerful machinery of broadcasting. The United States pursued an ideal of diversity which turned into a crippling conformity; its choice of a fulcrum was the business community in whose untrammelled power radio and television became as deadening as they are lucrative, and as tyrannical as any totalitarian system. There are presently available many exciting technical possibilities which could transform the relationship between broadcasting in general and the mass audience. There are ways of being serious, without being thought to be obscure. There are ways of expressing beliefs which do not leave in their wake the feeling of being propagandised.
