Is the most remarkable thing about present-day television, as Mr. Stein maintains

in this vivid exchange, its pervasive left-wing, anti-business bias-- ("People watch TV so much that it's like a second life for them, and in this second life conditions are very different from what they are in real life. That is, in real life one occasionally finds a businessman who's not plotting to murder his go-go dancer girlfriend.") Or is it, as Mrs. Fuldheim argues, the fact that through television "the whole standard of knowledge has been raised"? ("I think that television is one of the greatest influences that has ever occurred in civilized society, for it is going to create a homogeneous quality among people. ... And I think that the average person who would not read the National Geographic or the Saturday Review or any of these magazines can see things on television.")