Fr.Arrupe, of happy memory, on Mass
communications.
“ I am no prophet, but I can tell
you that in another 10 years India’s teeming millions will be reached only by
TV. Today Delhi alone has television; here in Bombay you will have it soon.TV
will be possible on a grand scale in about 2 or 3 years when you have
satellites as they do in Latin America.
You must prepare yourselves to
turnthis avalanche into blessing. We know the awful waste of time that results from
TV advertisements and cheap films in
Europe and many other countries. The Indian Government will be ready to good
programmes. The time to prepare for it
is now. After ten or even five years it will be too late. We will have missed
the boat! In a church you may have 2000 or 5000 people listening to you. On TV
you will be able to contact directly 4 or 5 million listeners and viewers whom
you would never have been able to approach in any other way. And this is not
wishful thinking but a fact of the very near future.”
(Excerpt from “Relevance of our apostolate
to-day”, a talk given to Bombay Jesuits on 21 April, 1971)
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