What is Vivendi?
The little I hear about television suggests a falling-off even from the
sitcoms of the 1960s and '70s. Certainly from children's programming.
The last thing of the latter sort I watched was Pee-Wee's Playhouse,
which convulsed my kids and me. It was gentle, nuts, and funny. Paul
Rubens' downfall suggested to me a set-up, though that is probably my
own paranoia at work.
Most TV I recall seeing was mean-spirited and ugly. The Simpsons,
Married With Children...vicious glorifications of morons. Though the
latter was infinitely worse because it was not cartoon characters but
merely flesh-eating bacteria.
I suppose the news is innocuous enough. You at least know you are being
lied to.
ken
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Ken Wolman
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