On Oct 21, 2012, at 5:41 AM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture > available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The > most terrifying thing is what people do > want. > *Clive Barnes*
Barnes, a theater critic, said that in 1969, when there were only three major national networks in the U.S. and one in England. Television then was a "culture" "available" to people who owned televisions and controlled entirely by very wealthy corporate interests who chose what to broadcast. Television, to paraphrase Henry Ford, offered everyone any show or content they wanted as long as it was a show the television companies offered. It's Hobson's choce. "A critic is someone who rides in after the battle and shoots the wounded." --Clive Barnes ------------------
