A review of the tumultuous Television/Society/Art Symposium held at the Kitchen in New York City, Oct 24-26 1981. Described as a symposium to "consider television as

a complex social institution representative of society's self-images [and] to analyze the production, presentation, and reception of television, [as well as] examine the medium as a special technological means of artistic expression through the application of advanced forms of intellectual inquiry." (3).

The author finds great fault in the way the panel discussions were unevenly organized, giving preferential treatment to the panelists thoughts over those of the audience, who often had as much to contribute as the 'experts'. In this way, equating the panel/audience format to the problematic hierarchy of broadcast television.