Uncomfortable TV

[Scott & Nikki Gardner]

At  2:00 AM 7/3/96 -0600, LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:

>I was always intrigued by the this but saw no direct connection, except that
>the show (Lou Grant) was more or less forced off the air because it dealt with
>uncomfortable
>political themes (in tv-series terms, at least).

It's funny that 15 years later Dan Quayle was "forced off the air" for
chastening Murphy Brown's uncomfortable political themes (and so was his
boss, eventually, for other reasons--or perhaps for the same reasons).  The
Tube has come into its own, apparently.

I'm new to this list, and slightly overwhelmed, if that's not
contradictory.  I obviously haven't read these books enough times (is it
possible to do so?), but I'm inspired to read, as soon as I plod through
this Eco thing.

Thanks
Scott Gardner in Okayama
If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the
fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks
or outside.
 --Casaubon in _Foucault's Pendulum_