"The Big One"

[Louis Proyect]

I suspect that Moore would have done a piece in sympathy with these very
same cabbies when they went out on strike, because he doesn't tend to
romanticize workers, as his portrait of the Flint worker who raised
rabbits for python food indicates.

Louis P.

On Sun, 17 May 1998, Daniel Marcus wrote:


> At 10:13 AM 5/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
> . If Moore had a TV show, he'd probably be conducting
> >sympathetic and humorous interviews with NY's cab-drivers who organized a
> >highly successful one-day strike last week. Come to think of it, Moore did
> >have such a show, called "TV Nation." His tendency to take the point of
> >view of the underdog no doubt explains his banishment from the air-waves.
> >
> Actually, Moore did do a segment on "TV Nation" about New York cabbies --
> demonstrating their refusal to pick up black pedestrians hailing cabs.
> Things are not so simple as we would like.
> --Daniel Marcus
>   University of Wisconsin-Madison  
> 
>