RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

the required research, clear-cut analysis and bold conclusions. And along with these the risk that we may make a mistake. Though let us say this too: it is a lesser crime to make a mistake in a journal with a circuiation of 2,000 than it is to fall into the same еггог in our permanent, current radio and TV programmes before an audience of millions. If we could distinguish those programmes which inspire and uncover from those which lull to sleep, this would mean we would be weaving the thread of our review into the warp and weft of radio and TV - with the hope that our radio and television are really growing into self-managing media. Our review opens the pages of this column to all. The most desirable collaborators would be those who really grasp the socio-economic conditions for treating Man as an increasingly active subject - that is, the Man-by-his-set seen as an individual, seen from the studio as an invisible co-author, an assistant in putting the programme together which, with his active help, is then created in the true sense of the word. For a programme only happens in the mind of the active listener/viewer; it dies out if it doesn't meet the right sounding-board (that is, the reaction of the listener/viewer, not just dumb acceptance). The conditions for transforming radio and television are deeply rooted in our social relations. It is their development which paves the way that radio and television should tread towards even better communication, provided, of course, revolutionary subjective forces overcome selfish group interests, especially those influential ones on whom depend the fates of people who would othenvise build up open communication outside narrow trends and well-worn forms. Without this there can be no new radio and television communication. The question is: who is satisfied and who dissatisfied with the present situation? Perhaps the idea that radio and TV studio workers’(those m a stronger position) should treat the Man-by-his-set as the Other - equal to themselves - is just a humane desire whose realisation is only the putting off of tomorrow. Really creative workers do not do this, as they always feel that there шау not be a »next programme« for them. For them there is only the programme going out at that moment in time. We live in a world thickly and tightly knotted like no rug woven by human hand, As in vessels joined together the pressure of powerful opponents to real self-management, but also that of the untalented stick-in-the-mud obstructionists from programme development - can be overcome only by a new infusion of creative energy. Without it in radio and TV programming, as in nature, every element of each and every programme will collapse, according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, into the icy nothingness of entropy.

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