British television is the big success story of the post-war years. Little more than a limited experiment before the war, it blossomed in _ _ _ _ (2) several years following 1945. __ In __ (3) 1955, commercial television began. To day, 90% of the population have a television in their houses _ _ _ _ (4) In 1960, a committee of enquiry was set _ _ _ _ (5) up, under the chairmanship of Sir Harry Pilkington, to investigate the workings of broadcasting. The Pilkington Report, published in 1962, had _ _ _ _ _ (7) to say: "Television has been well _ _ _ _ (8) a mirror of society, but the metaphor, _ _ most _ _ (9) striking, wholly misses the major issue of the responsibility __ of __ (10) the broadcasting authorities. For, if we consider the first aspect of this responsibility, what is the __ right __ (11) to reflect? Is it to reflect the best or the worst __ of __ (12) us? One cannot escape the question by saying that it must do both; one must ask then _ _ how _ _ (13) it is to present the best and the worst with complete indifference and _ _ without _ _ (14). Television _ _ _ _ (15) will not, and cannot, merely reflect the moral standards of society, it must affect _ _ these __ (16) either by changing or by reinforcing them. "All broadcasting, __ including __ (17) television, must be ready and anxious to experiment, to show things _ _ _ _ (18) new and unusual, to give hearing __ from __ (19) dissent. Here, broadcasting must be most willing to make mistakes; for if it does not, it will make _ _ _ _ (20) no discoveries.
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