Amen to that, Steve. It's about intent. If they're only there to entertain, a disclaimer somewhere in every broadcast would be nice. These people aren't delivering entertainment packaged as entertainment, and that just feels very dishonest to me. I don't read the Weekly World News tabloid either, but at least it's set up like a damned comic book, with alien babies of Kathie Lee Gifford on every other cover.
Then again, I saw one episode with a segment that dealt with some very early Victor records and a couple of other unusual labels, and the guy really seemed to know his stuff. I have to believe the Sotheby's and Christie's people know what they're talking about. I just have to. ...IF they really work for those places. But hey, if the misinformation doesn't creep you out enough, that Dan guy's hair and weird demeanor certainly will. With him hosting, ARS's biggest problem may not be the malarky factor after all. Maybe I'll only watch the original British version from now on. Best, r. >From: "Steven Medved" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: Antique Phonograph List <[email protected]> >To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Re: Edison Phono on Antique Road Show this week >Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:01:23 -0500 > > >Aaron, > >I agree with your idea of education, too bad the Roadshow people don't. >When I first started to collect I was extremely interested in finding more >info on phonos, it took me about two years of looking until I found Allen >back in 1985, there was no website that I knew of and APM and the books he >sold quenched the thirst for knowledge I had and gave me a good foundation >for future learning. This is why these days I find ignorance sad. I went >to Google and typed in antique phonograph books and the first site that came >up was: > >Antique Phonograph Books (Victor Victrola Edison Columbia Bettini)Antique >phonograph and record collecting - books and information to help you with >your hobby. >members.aol.com/allenamet/PhonoBooks.html - 15k - Cached - Similar pages > >I do not watch TV, but find it sad 'experts' do not do their homework. > >Steve > > > > > > > I always thought of the Antique Roadshow as entertainment, not eductional. > > > > For education, there are many fine books, eg. Fabrizio & Paul,at > > least > > 7, Robin & Joan Rolf, at least 2 and a Library on Allen Koenigsbergs > > website. > > > > Aaron >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >[email protected] > >Phono-L Archive >http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
