 One chapter analyses the use of TV and radio soap operas to spread liberal cultural and moral propaganda, and refers to several instances where this intention has been openly expressed by the editors and authors of such programmes.In another, he attacks the development of "anti-establishment" comedy since the staging of "Beyond the Fringe" at the Edinburgh Festival in 1960.For Hitchens, the development of television, citing with approval a critical letter by T. S. Eliot to "The Times" in 1950, was something which should have led to a greater public debate than it did.