CSI: Cambridge (The Henry Louis Gates Affair and the Media)

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CSI: Cambridge (The Henry Louis Gates Affair and the Media)
      

The capacity of the 24/7 media â€" cable television “news,” talk radio, the blabosphere â€" to become obsessed with trivia in order to avoid the possibility of having to discuss real issues intelligently is, so far as anyone can tell, infinite.

For a few weeks there it was wall-to-wall Michael Jackson, until even the talking heads could bear it no more (though it hasn’t gone away entirely even now: What did his doctor do or know? And what, exactly, Mr. or Ms. Average Viewer, has it to do with you?).

And now the adventures of Prof. Henry Louis Gates in his own home ...


         

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