----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:18 PM Subject: Re: On the Unpopularity of Leftish TV shows....
> As far as Now, I watched it and I really wanted to like it, but it was,
> well, boring as shit. I'm not sure what it was but no matter how much I
was
> cheering the stories, I just felt like falling asleep. Entertainment
value
> matters on TV, largely because it takes so long to say anything
substantive
> that it better be packaged well to make the point fast, hard and wittily.
>
> Frankly, the 5-minute Headlines segment of Jon Stewart's Daily Show
delivers
> more progressive punch than any hour of Now or most other attempts at left
> news.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
For Christ's sake Nathan (and Doug), we're talking about PBS here.