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Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
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Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:35:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> **snip of some stuff, including a good reminder about North Korea***
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> > [T]he rest of you can fondly remember MASH if you like. I won't be
> > participating in the general euphoria about it.
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> It should be remembered that one can (or can prefer to) watch a program
> without swallowing its "message" hook, line, and sinker, and it would be a
> mistake to think that the millions of people who watched MASH even worried
> about the conflict on which the series was so (tremendously) loosely based.
It would also be a mistake to think that they weren't at least unconsciously
influenced by it...
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| (...) Perhaps it's a case of the program showing what the viewers wanted to see, so that the program was in turn influenced by the viewership? This is obviously similar to The West Wing. I haven't seen even one second of that show, but does it (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: **snip of some stuff, including a good reminder about North Korea*** (...) It should be remembered that one can (or can prefer to) watch a program without swallowing its "message" hook, line, and (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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