You Can't Do Political Philosophy on Television

The news of the day did not exist before television. This medium has created so much content, has caused us to view this content in a certain way that it is self perpetuating. You can't do political philosophy on television. Its form works against the content. We have plenty of political dialogue on television. What's he talking about here? Ah, he looks to few examples. He looks to william howard taft, who weighd 300 pounds, and asked the question of, how would he get elected to day on television? And you know, his argument, looking backwards from 19 86, is, ah, wasn't it great when we could write things down, like,