Here is a politics related Minneapolis Cable complaint. I hope someone
can suggest who I can refer it to.
Twelve-thirty last night while channel surfing I found on CSPAN (Mpls
cable 14) Lenora Fulani speaking to the Committee of Unified Independent
Parties (or something like that), a group she chairs. I caught the
beginning of the speech but my wife insisted that it was past my bedtime
so I had to set the cable to catch the rest.
It looked like a pretty good speech, covering how both the Democrats and
Republicans had failed African Americans and how some of Perot's
staffers had not realized the potential synergistic potential of African
Americans in the third party movement. She had lots of good facts and
history, and was articulate as usual.
Anyway, when I checked my tape this morning I found Fulani was cut off
at about 1 am, when all of a sudden CSPAN was dropped on Channel 14 and
replaced by some network called BurlyBear. It was a candid camera
format that showed, among other things, some guys urinating against a
wall and a person in a bull costume pretending sexual intercourse with
what was apparently an equine statue in an urban park or flowerbed.
Now I am sure this stuff has redeeming public value and is entertaining
to someone, but to truncate CSPAN is out of line. Time Warner in Mpls
has already exiled some good cultural programming to the B channels (I'm
still looking for Bravo, and they don't seem to offer us cable guides
anymore--on screen or mailed out), and pushed Arts and Entertainment to
54 so they could place The Golf Channel below 30.
Maybe Burly Bear is public affairs programming and I just don't get it.
Please inform.
Alan Shilepsky
Downtown
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