<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>for years, cool and unmodulated worked very well in TV.   take a look at ed sullivan's and dave garroway's styles, for example.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>it's only since the right wing has put all the screamers on radio and TV that things have changed a bit.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>the system sucks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>R</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dhenwood@panix.com href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">Doug Henwood</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 05, 2002 5:30 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: fast/slow thinkers</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>jean-christophe helary wrote:<BR><BR>>would tv work for chomsky eventually ?<BR><BR>It'd be hard. Either TV would have to change or he would. His style <BR>is too cool and unmodulated for TV - most people would flip the <BR>channel. How could he compete with Behind the Music?<BR><BR>Doug<BR></BODY></HTML>