[MD] Intellectual activity

[Platt Holden]

Khaled:

> Once again you fail to see the bigger picture.

What do you mean, "once again?" When have I failed to see the bigger 
picture before? 

> The BIG money platt. The studios and TV stations get. The multimillion
> dollars contracts the hosts of the show command. That's what i am
> talking about and not the few pesos that may get thrown in the direction
> of the toothless inbred guests of the show.

The BIG money, Khaled -- the money the government spends on hand outs.  
That's what I'm talking about -- the Marxist big government policy of  
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." 
The money spent on TV shows is a pittance compared to the amount of 
money the government takes from us working stiffs to fund  various 
welfare programs. That's the big picture you fail to see. Those 
"toothless inbred" guests you speak of, the audience in the studio and 
the audience in TV land should be out working instead of sitting on 
their butts watching Springer and Povitch do their thing.  

> Platt
> I understand your frustration and anger and concern for the social
> decline.
> 
> I am too my friend. It really bothers.
> In the end we both like to see the west, and especially America return
> to its golden age. 1954-1958. It's the causes we seem to disagree on.
> 
> then you ask the question about the free market.
> 
> While you may look at Nike and defend their practice of going oversees
> as a need to stay in business, I see the problem not as a labor and cost
> issue but as an overpaid paid athlete/celebrity paid $10 million a year
> to promote their product. And that is something that no one can
> regulate.

Thank God and the millions who have died to defend the right of an 
athlete to make $10 million a year promoting a product. That's what 
freedom and the free market means. As for the "golden age of 1954-58, " 
you want to return to the McCarthy years?

> We both rather not see springer on TV, I say it's driven by the $$$ that
> fuel the hosts, studio exec and the dumming down of the audience in
> general buy the media ( Big Corp) that has zero social responsibility
> and is only concerned with the bottom line. If all the stations offered
> PBS quality programing ( yes you can broadcast NASCAR while giving it
> quality) the Quality of the  audience will eventually move up.

I don't watch Springer on TV. Nor do I watch PBS except when they have 
an occasional musical special. Most of their stuff is profoundly 
boring. I have no desire to control the media to "elevate" the 
audience, and cringe at the thought of an elite committee deciding  
what entertainment I should see. That road leads directly to 
authoritarianism. 

Platt