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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 1960

 

Alfred Hitchcock

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Soon it will be achieved. The lie of television has been that there are contexts to which television will grant an access. Since lies last, usually, no more than one generation, television will re-form around the idea that television itself is a context to which television will grant an access.

 

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