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Friday, August 23, 2002
Burning question:: (From Pie Fight in Oregonian's A & E section) American Idol: The most exciting and suspensful show since Survivor, or further proof that TV's become a total slime pit? Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (The more things change, the more they remain the same.) Or is a total Slim Pit worse than a Vast Wasteland? " . . when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland." --Newton Minow, 1961 Or: To suggest that American Idol provides "further proof that TV's become a total slime pit" is to belabor the obvious with the otiose.
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