I’m a fan of roughly a half dozen TV programs (only three of which are still on), and top of my list would have to be BookTV on C-Span2. It’s one of the rare places of intelligent speech in a medium that epitomizes free speech.
Tonight is Jim Hightower, “Swim Against the Current“. Of course, the title either sells itself or causes disinterest, depending upon your inclinations, so I like that about it up front. Of course, you also get dill weeds like David Horowitz, who rant and seem to have no scruples about passing off as reasonable ideas that are merely popular.
So at any given moment, BookTV is a crap shoot. But odds are better at any moment than the other channels, where it’s 90% “murder TV”, “police/soldier TV”, and “reality TV” punctuated by so-called ‘news’.