Charles Hazlewood Quotes
I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.
Hazlewood, Charles. "My media." The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 9 Feb. 2004.
Those who dumb down the news, trivialize the news with in-studio shouting matches passing for debate
It is expensive to pay journalists to investigate and record the news. It is very inexpensive to put two political protagonists at a table with a moderator, and allow them to shout at each other for the duration of the program.
In 1948 in the midst of the Red Scare the HUAC and its Senate counterpart had started to hound a former Assistant Secretary of State, Lawrence Duggan. Typical of the times, those who disagreed with Duggan’s political views anonymously leaked material to the press alleging that Duggan might have been a spy. The press had a feeding frenzy and Dugan committed suicide in the midst of the pressure. Most in Congress paused to contemplate the consequence of what was occurring. Even Richard M. Nixon regretted the “misunderstandings.” Dugan’s father, however, an old acquaintance of Edward R. Murrow, the then dean of American broadcasters, however primarily blamed the press for printing all the unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo.
Charles Matthew Egerton Hazlewood is a British conductor. After winning the European Broadcasting Union conducting competition in 1995 whilst still in his twenties, Hazlewood has had a career as an international conductor, music director of film and theatre, composer and a curator of music on British radio and television, and founder of Paraorchestra - the world's first integrated ensemble of disabled and non-disabled musicians. He became Sky Arts’ Ambassador for Music in January 2021.
