Comments on: Late Night Cable, or, Tales of Recuperation

By: Faye M Martin

Faye M Martin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:45:43 +0000

Disappointed in some reality shows but more so with Fox news. Sent them 2 photos of what appeared to be UFO ORIGIN I took near my home on County KR NEAR Great Lakes Dragway in Union grove Wis.after my daughter sent the pictures they sent email back and then retracted it.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:06:12 +0000

Still love John Stewart! Loved him last night pairing footage of the same “conservative” pundits arguing that bank CEOs had to be very highly paid if they were to be retained with footage of them explaining how teachers in Wisconsin were greedy! Terrible that the only the “fake news” shows can get to the truth these days…

By: Mike Land

Mike Land — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:29:14 +0000

What happened to your love for The Daily Show, Bill? Not “real” enough for you?

By: Dori

Dori — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:23:40 +0000

So oxycodone is the trick to making Robert Irvine seem charming…

I love chopped, but I’m not quit sure why.

This was a great piece – Thank you!

Dori

By: Richard Gilbert

Richard Gilbert — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:49:44 +0000

I want to bronze this for the brilliant first sentence and the nice followup:

“I love how all the science I learned in college isn’t true anymore and how all the literature is still just as true as ever, Fahrenheit 451 included. My sense of things is that the value in narrative is about storytelling, and that storytelling can retain its quality and power and basic humanity no matter the medium.”

Whatever meds and late-night trash you are consuming, Bill, it has stirred you to profundity. Or left your native insight unharmed, at least.

By: Valerie Lane

Valerie Lane — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:37:42 +0000

Really good Bill. I enjoyed it a lot. Do you get HGTV? On all night!

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:17:31 +0000

I love how all the science I learned in college isn’t true anymore and how all the literature is still just as true as ever, Fahrenheit 451 included. My sense of things is that the value in narrative is about storytelling, and that storytelling can retain its quality and power and basic humanity no matter the medium. TV’s been around a long time now, and literature isn’t dead–in fact, some of it’s on TV. When I was a kid it was comic books that were going to destroy the world. I’m not much worried about the Internet anymore, and certainly not TV, but global climate change–that could certainly end literature, speaking of high temperatures!

By: John Jack

John Jack — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:44:42 +0000

I gotcha, Erin.

I’d heard that too, worries about the Internet destroying literature. While a nontraditional freshman in college, some literature classmates questioned why poetry should be studied anymore since they saw it as a dying, if not dead artform. I believe the Internet is revitalizing poetry. I expect some good, some not so good can come from any technology. The Internet’s capacity to connect the disconnected is one of its more meaningful strengths, at least it is to me.

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:10:46 +0000

Hey John, I teach Fahrenheit 451 to my students. They aren’t worried about the conflict between television and literature; they’re much more worried about the internet destroying literature. And yes, some actually admit at the end of the year that Bradbury wrote one of the single most compelling novels (filled with scarily prescient gadgets) that they’ve ever read.

By: John Jack

John Jack — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:30:58 +0000

Farenheit 451. Is it only about censorship? Or is it about technology destroying cultural cultivation? Or is it about the tyrrany of majority rules mass culture lairding over individual freedoms? It’s about the conflict between TV and literature. It’s a love story with literature as the love interest.