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Overboard With Schlock TV |
| Section: THE ARTS / ARTS WATCH |
| Author: Thomas Johnson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 887 Words, 5,496 Characters |
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Because William Bennett is not running for president or for any other public office, he can do something the candidates can't: select which topics to deal with and which to avoid. In 1995, at least, Bennett's strategy was low-risk; the only sociocultural broadsides he issued concerned matters on which almost everyone already agreed with him.
Last spring, Bennett's target was gangsta rap, a musical subgenre usually defended not on its merits, but rather on it's-disgusting-?ut-it's-his-First-Amendment-right-to-say-it grounds. Then, in the fall, he blasted daytime talk shows, an even bigger fish in an even smaller barrel. After all, a gangsta rap advocate can argue that though S...
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...ffering from the CNBC cable network called Real Personal. If it's that personal, it shouldn't be on TV, should it? But it is, and it's about sex.)
Long before there were daytime talk shows, T.S. Eliot wondered, "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" Eliot might ask today, "Where is the information we have lost in this ... slime?"
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