[78-L] History Detectives Monday June 22 9:00 pm est

[David Lennick]

About 5 years ago, "All Things Considered" phoned me and insisted on getting me 
into a CBC studio which had a line to NPR so they could talk to me about a 
Charles Trenet CD I produced. They also insisted on skewing the interview to my 
expert opinions on popular French culture in the 1920s and 30s. Never mind that 
I just produced the damn thing and based my selections on recordings I 
particularly liked and vaguely comprehended. To top it off, there was a 
substitute host doing the interview who didn't understand the questions the 
producer had written up. Total waste of time, and fortunately it never aired.

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Elizabeth McLeod wrote:
>> I'm not sure they're "Dimwits"...it's more likely they just aren't 
>> interested in the topic (and thus intellectually lazy).
>>
> Having been on HD myself a couple years ago, I think the real problem is 
> simply that their resident experts come into the program with their own 
> pet theories and beliefs about particular topics already in place -- and 
> they choose subjects that will easily tie in with them, and then look 
> around for experts who will uphold what they've already concluded.
> 
> It's all heavily routined, and nothing gets on that contradicts what the 
> particular cast member assigned to the program has already concluded.
>