📺 'The Lazy Half-Wit Comes Into His Own - A British Writer Reveals His Views on The Drawbacks of Mass Communication' (1953‪)‬ Pessimists Aloud

This screed against mass-media appeared in a 1953 issue of The New York Times, it was an excerpt from an article written by British novelist J.B. Priestly for The Newstatesman. Today people yearn for the days of unsocial mass-media, but we forget that once mass-media was a strange new cultural influence - Priestly gives some insight into concerns about it at the time. 

Source: The New York Times, October 4th, 1953 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/10/04/92749299.html?pageNumber=346