[greenyes] Lobotomedia [Re: [Mad Cow Disease and Our Times]

[Alan Muller <amuller@no.address>]

At 02:30 PM 3/10/2004 -0600, Kelly Bolger wrote:
> Go Bob!  I have to agree, that it is much easy to blame a medium of 
> entertainment that used to be a privilege, but now has taken over much of 
> what people think is what we want and need, b/c somebody else told us it 
> was.  The bottom line is there is a "green"ish channel out there, it is 
> called PBS.  The quality of shows on it are both educational and informative.

Well, in my area (Delaware) the public broadcasting operation sometimes 
runs national (PBS) shows that are--IMO--good (Bill Moyers) but their local 
programming is *worse* than the commercial product.  They use almost 
exclusively corporate lobbyists and other fat-cats as the talking 
heads.  The pols are intentionally giving them lots of money NOT to cover 
independent views.  I don't know if this is a national trend but I suspect 
so.  We've been complaining about it for years but most people seem 
indifferent.

Alan Muller
Green Delaware