On the Unpopularity of Leftish TV shows....

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 10 07:35:39 PDT 2002


Kevin Robert Dean wrote:


>Donahue and Moyers--not the greatest leftists in the
>world, but on the left at least: Why the hell aren't
>left wing TV shows popular? Scary!

Because they're pious and boring? One of the reason right-wing talk is popular is because it's aggressive and often funny. Moyers sounds like a preacher on sedatives. O'Reilly is in many ways an abomination, but he's entertaining. Michael Moore might be able to put it off, but not the eat-your-peas crowd.

Doug



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