Uncomfortable TV

[Paul Mackin]

I don't exactly get the point of this thread.

Uncomfortable good or uncomfortable bad?

TV _does_ make one kind of itchy at times.

By chance did some ironic quotation marks get left off?

Please elaborate. Anybody . . .


			P.


On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt wrote:

> Scott Gardner writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Its own what? Not the old Democrat (fascists) vs Republican (fascists) 
> again? Ok ok - serious question for any USians who can tear themselves 
> away from their 4th o' July tax revolt turkeys. I have always advocated 
> teaching (or just reading) US literature (well, some) as an antidote to US TV. 
> IS there a marked improvement in US TV since cable, as davemarc recently 
> (may have) suggested? Or is Murphy Brown (and shows like The Simpsons) 
> as 'uncomfortable' as it gets? 
> 
> hg
> (PS. I actually like both shows... for what that's worth).
> hag at iafrica.com
> 
>