From: eandj-AT-online-pro.com Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 09:41:55 -0500 Subject: Some more media coverage The public radio station in New York City, WYNC, produces a show called "On the Media." This morning, they aired a short (two minutes) segment discussing PB's criticism of media intellectuals. The interviewee was Philip Kennicott, "cultural critic" for the Washinton Post. His take on PB is quite odd; it can be seen in a piece from the Washington Post where he tries to relate Bourdieu's writings on television to contemporary cultural politics in the U.S. It's available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41261-2002Jan26.html This is one of the very few non-academic treatments of PB I've seen in the U.S. media. Ironically, Kennicott's radio segment was preceded by an equally brief interview with Richard Posner, the federal judge who recently published a book on public intellectualls in the U.S. which, as I recall, amounts to a "Hit Parade" in the most literal sense--among other things, ranking various figures (Kissinger, Moynihan) according to the number of hits returned by web searches on their names. The New York Times had an un-surprisingly un-critical piece on this book a few weeks ago. The segment following Kennicott's interview dealt with the resurgent popularity of trucking songs in a bar in Brooklyn. Regards, Elliot Weininger Department of Sociology Temple University ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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