03-15-2009, 06:52 PM
Hi,
It seems to me that kandrathe approached the issue from the problem side, you from the solution side.
My only original comment is that I get four educational channels, a couple of c-span channels, Discovery, and The History Channel. Throw in the occasional abs and buns workout infomercial :w00t:and TV is not *all* bad.
--Pete
Quote:I'm not sure that's fair.I think you are actually agreeing with kandrathe here. He stated, "I think it is a big mistake to treat anything on the TV as much more than entertainment." You say, "In a world where everyone was appropriately skeptical, their role would be trivial." Seems to me that the two are pretty well equivalent. In a world of skeptics, people would treat TV as entertainment, and the role of pundits (of all stripes) would be trivial.
It seems to me that kandrathe approached the issue from the problem side, you from the solution side.
My only original comment is that I get four educational channels, a couple of c-span channels, Discovery, and The History Channel. Throw in the occasional abs and buns workout infomercial :w00t:and TV is not *all* bad.
--Pete
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