Gina Telaroli
April 17, 2008 |
8:21 am EST
When the National Assn of Broadcasters chose Tim Robbins to give the keynote address at their broadcasters confab in Las Vegas they may not have known what they were getting themselves into:
In a keynote speech laced with wry irony and winking sarcasm, Tim Robbins managed to slap back at his right-wing critics, recount an entertaining history of radio and TV and urge broadcasters to “appeal to our better natures,” saying news directors and producers have a responsibility to “the health of the nation.”
Robbins also denounced television’s “pornographic obsession with celebrity culture” and warned that meaningful civil discourse is being threatened by it.
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