[lbo-talk] RE: Film Notes

[Shane Taylor]

Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>Here is Chomsky on Sport:-
>
>Now there are other media too whose basic social role is
> quite different: it's diversion. There's the real mass media
>-the kinds that are aimed at, you know, Joe Six Pack -- that
> kind.

Doug Henwood wrote:
> I don't care at all about sports of any kind, but that's just me.
> But denouncing sports as a distraction, esp in the context of
> patronizing references to Joe Six Pack (and what's wrong
> with beer? like Tom T. Hall, I like beer), looks like another
> instance of left self-marginalization. It's raw material for
> critiques of the left as elitist and out of touch. Besides, I
> know quite a few serious radicals - union organizers,
> activists, intellectuals - who like sports.

Yeah, didn't Edward Said have an adoration of bull fighting?

-- Shane

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