For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to (1)______ to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to make the words "good" or "bad" irrelevant, immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such a thing, we are told, like a set of standards first (2)______ acquired through experience and knowledge and late imposed on the subject under discussion. This (3)______ has been a popular approach, for it relieves the critic of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the (4)______ necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of disciplines, it flatters the empty-minded by calling him open-minded, it comforts the confused. Under (5)______ the banner of democracy and the kind of quality which our forefathers did not mean, it says, in effect, "Who are you to tell us what is good or bad" This is same cry used so long and so effectively by the (6)______ the producers of mass media who insist that it is the public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear and (7)______ to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is bad and that program is good is pure a reflection of (8)______ personal taste. Nobody recently bas expressed this philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton, (9)______ the highly intelligent president of CBS television. At a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission, this phrase escaped from him under (10)______ questioning: "One man’s mediocrity is another man’s goed program".