The 1970's: A voice with its own face and name stares us in the eye: enters our own home and establishes a relationship of trust - seeming to guarantee the veracity of the information it brings us.

The 1990's: Our general suspicion of the politics of scandals and defunct ideologies is now turned on the media of information - product, and of news - spectacle, the truth of TV. The representatives of the media come crashing down from their pedestals as their images grow tarnished.