On Oct 5, 5:55 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know that, based on this sampling of letters, "pompous asses"
> (if by that you mean the white wine drinking pseudo-sophisticates who
> want their PBS music to be no more popular than the Three Tenors) is
> the most accurate description of the authors. The Truthers are more
> low brow than high or middle brow, and hardly the defenders of PBS
> status quo. OTOH, the critics of Facilitated Communication (including
> a letter from the great, and amazing, James Randi) while they may
> share with the Truthers a misunderstanding of which programs are
> produced by PBS, raise a reasonable and important point. Getler could
> have pointed out PBS (now I am wondering if it was literally a PBS
> show, but I think it was actually a Frontline piece) broadcast a very
> influential documentary on FC years ago that is generally seen as
> being very critical of the technique.
I may have overstated, but the tone of so many of the letters Getler
receives that don't have anything to do with news coverage or news
documentaries do have that PBS-is-dumbing-down-going-downhill-
compromising-its-standards-for-corporate-underwriting hysteria,
especially on things like their choice not to air a Mozart
commemorative concert from Austria live or same-day-delay last year
(the concert did end up on "Great Performances" a few months later).
That sort of thing.
And Randi's letter did point out the "Frontline" program on FC.
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