BRITISH TELEVISION IS THE BIG SUCCESS STORY OF THE POST WAR YEAR

câu 26 đến 35: British television is the big success story of the post war year. Little (26) __________ than a limited experiment before the war. It blossomed in the years following 1945. In 1955, commercials television began. Today, 90% of the population have television in their home.In 1960, a committee of inquiry was (27) __________ up, under the chairmanship of Sir Harry Pilkington, to investigate the working of broadcasting. The Pilkington Report, (28) __________ in 1962, had this to say: " Television has been (29) __________ a mirror of society, but the metaphor, however striking, wholly misses the major issue of the responsibility of the broadcasting authorities. For, if we consider the aspect of this (30) __________ , what is the mirror to reflect? Is it to reflect the best or the (31) __________ in us? One cannot escape the question by saying that it must do both: one must ask then if it is to present the best or the worst with complete indifference and no comment. Television (32) __________ not, and cannot, merely reflect the moral standards of society. It must affect (33) __________ either by changing or by reinforcing them". All broadcasting, and television particularly should be ready and anxious to experiment, to show (34) __________ new and unusual, to give hearing at dissent. Here, broadcasting must be most willing to (35) __________ mistakes; for if it does not, it will make no discoveries.