Christ and the Media

Abstract

"I am, of course, greatly complimented that you should have asked an old superannuated journalist like myself to come and speak to you on "Christ and the Media," a subject that is by the nature of the case of transcendent impor- tance to religious broadcasting. Let me say, straight away, that I have no qualification for holding forth on such a subject other than that of having come belatedly and reluctantly to see in Christ the only reality in a world increasingly given over to fantasy and of having worked in the media, man and boy, for something like half a century past—the whole gamut from sonorous editorials to scurvy little gossip paragraphs, from news stories from our special correspondents here, there and everywhere to book reviews, theater notices, feature articles and obituaries, and taking in the somber experience of being editor of the ostensibly humorous magazine, Punch, required in that capacity to essay the impossible task of making my fellow countrymen laugh."