Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1803 |
| AUTHOR: | Pilkington Report |
| QUOTATION: | Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste, and end by debauching it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Pilkington Report, quoting an unknown source. Great Britain, Committee on Broadcasting, 1960, Report (Cmnd. 1753), chapter 3, p. 17 (1962). |
| SUBJECTS: | Television |