After years of presenting mindless content, TV now offers more informative programmes, writes John Harvey
Documentary series make for satisfying viewing
In a now famous speech, the great American broadcast journalist Edward R Murrow said of television: “This instrument can teach, illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends...
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