CB: "Great televisions shows ? We could do without 9/10ths of them 
probably."

JG: There's certainly room for improvement, but I think that we are in 
a golden age of TV at the moment - The Sopranos, etc. But I do agree 
with Lord Reith, former director general of the BBC - "Don't give the 
people what they want, give them something better." 

CB: "My reference to the "Golden Age" is a reference to the state of 
mind of the very working masses to whom you want to make these decisions."

JG: Just keep taking the happy pills? 

CB: "We have to be more choosy,discriminating in our tastes,even. Don't 
just accept everything they throw at us."

JG: I'm very discriminating thank you. And I'm sure that everyone else 
thinks of themselves in the same way. I'm not saying that we shouldn't 
raise cultural standards. But when you speak of discrimination, I 
suspect that you don't mean the philistine billionaires and their 
crappy Renoirs, but working class people choosing between consumer 
goods. Which, I might add, aren't thrown at people - we have to work 
hard and fight for the money to pay for these things where I come from.

CB "By the way, I am not part of "the elite" imposing my views on 
people of what I think they need."

JG: Don't sell yourself short. I'm sure you'll be in line for the 
commisar for production job after the revolution.

--James