it's only since the right wing has put all the screamers on radio and TV that things have changed a bit.
people like chomsky aren't designed to make it in popular TV. he's too dry, too intellectual, too "controversial" (a word the right wing has redefined to mean unpleasant), makes people think, etc. that's the obstacle. the passivity of the american people is an enormous hurdle to overcome.
besides how many working people, after getting home from their second job, having a couple of beers, and landing dog tired in their easy chairs, want to listen to chomsky? or anything else that demands energy.
the system sucks.
R
----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 5:30 PM Subject: Re: fast/slow thinkers
jean-christophe helary wrote:
>would tv work for chomsky eventually ?
It'd be hard. Either TV would have to change or he would. His style is too cool and unmodulated for TV - most people would flip the channel. How could he compete with Behind the Music?
Doug
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