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Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
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Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:53:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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.
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> It would also be a mistake to think that they weren't at least unconsciously
> influenced by it...
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 really seem likely that its left-leaning
message would be so popular if it didn't play to some aspect of the public's
sensibilities?
That's not to say that Mr. and Mrs. America are closet socialists, but if
we accept that the medium is influencing the audience, then it must be
credited that the audience sought out the medium in the first place. I
don't expect that Limbaugh's Dittoheads flock to the tv each week to watch
President Marty and the gang...
Dave!
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