The Media in general, and TV in particular, are incomparably the greatest single influence in our society .
He died in 1990..
His other books include Jesus Rediscovered, Jesus: The Man Who Lives, and A Third Testament.
In later years he became best known as a broadcaster both on television and radio for the BBC.
As a journalist he worked around the world on the Guardian, Calcutta Statesman, the Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph, and then in 1953 became editor of Punch where he remained for four years.
Born in 1903 started his career as a university lecturer at the university in Cairo before taking up journalism.
Future historians, wrote Muggeridge, will surely see us as having created in the Media a Frankenstein monster which no one knows how to control or direct, and marvel that we should have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.
Christ and the Media is a sharp, witty critique of media-oriented culture with such intriguing fantasies as the the Fourth Temptation, in which Jesus is approached with the offer of a worldwide TV network.
On radio and television, as a lecturer, journalist and author, he fascinated, delighted, provoked-and sometimes infuriated-his audiences.
Throughout his journalistic career, Malcolm Muggeridge was a commentator.
This influence is, in my opinion, largely exerted irresponsibly, arbitrarily, and without reference to any moral or intellectual, still less spiritual guidelines whatsoever.
The Media in general, and TV in particular, are incomparably the greatest single influence in our society
