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Dust Bowl Passion Play

By Ana Marie Cox

The best evidence for the existence of what the right likes to call the liberal media elite is not to be found in books such as Bernard Goldberg’s Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite. Nor can you really see it in the meaningfully arched eyebrow of Peter Jennings. It is not on the editorial page of the New York Times;… return to article

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    Sounds like a likelier candidate to have been called ‘The Boykin Stigmata’, though I did not have the misfortune to have seen it.

    United States Posted by bird on Jan 4, 2004 at 3:51 AM

    Seems to me that Mrs. Cox has a little too much free time on her hands. 

    For Christ’s sake, lady, it’s a TV show. 

    United States Posted by John H. on Jan 6, 2004 at 12:51 AM

    “a case study in Hollywood’s contempt and condescension”

    Get over yourself, please.

    “other showcase series ... offer nuanced, occasionally hopeful views of class and morality”

    Whoa - are you saying that there are individual fictional TV shows that are telling different stories from different viewpoints?

    Whoda thunk it?

    I bet if you looked at some books, you might observe a similar phenomenom.

    How much more awful and unentertaining TV would be if there weren’t different POVs espoused.

    United States Posted by Nus on Jan 28, 2004 at 10:13 PM
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