[lbo-talk] Re: power of tv

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sat Nov 8 11:44:16 PST 2003


On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Kevin Robert Dean wrote:


> And for those like me who have missed it, will have to read it in the
> transcripts, found here:
>
> http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_henwood.html

Doug's an exemplar of reason and tact here. I love this passage:

** HENWOOD: Well, I think the first step to progress is just seeing the way things... the way they are, and stripping away the myth-making. So that's, I think, the most urgent task. But I would, you know, I have I guess a fairly conventional socially democratic... social democratic political agenda, you know. **

That pause there is priceless--I want to interpret it as "well, fuck, how can I say I'm a socialist without alienating most of the people who are watching this?"

Miles



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