----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >I'd like to clear up a little potential confusion among list members. One >of our fellow members, Larry Jarvik, has included in his sig an affiliation >with the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. There are two >organizations having this name. One is the long established and esteemed >Center for the Study of Popular Culture, located at Bowling Green >University, and begun by Ray Browne, the founder of the Popular Culture >Association. I think most of us realize how much we owe academically to >this organization and Ray's early efforts to legitimize the academic study >of popular culture. The second organization is a conservative think tank >located in L.A., which seems to have as its main focus the destruction of >the NEA, NEH and CPB. (Of the 150 hits I got from a Lexis search, only a >handful did not concern this issue) Mr. Jarvik is head of the Washington >office of this organization, and testified at the recent House hearings >against CPB, on a panel with representatives of Accuracy in Media, the CATO >Institute, CAMERA, Family Research Council, Jones Education Networks, and >the NRA. Mr. Jarvik has been described as "one of the most prominent and >most durable critics of public television" (NYT, 1/25/95) > >Needless to say, the folks at Bowling Green are not real happy with this >group's choice of name. Maybe in the interests of fairness and truth in >advertising, the L.A. group could change theirs? ;) > >Incidentally, I e-mailed Mr. Jarvik yesterday with a request for a >description of his organization, and have not heard back. Perhaps he'd like >to fill us in. > >And I have been quite delighted with the support given to CPB and PBS in >response to his comments. > >Marlyn Robinson >University of Texas School of Law >[log in to unmask] ========================================= Thank you Marlyn Robinson!!! There was an article in the New York Times-- between last Tue Jan 31 and Thursday Febr.2 -- about a now happy Gingrichite, a multi-millionaire who created & bankrolled Mr. Jarvik's organization. I wanted to post this but the newspaper was borrowed by a friend until Monday. I will post it then unless someone beats me to the draw. Edwin Jahiel, Cinema Studies, University of Illinois " Le mauvais gout mene au crime" (Stendhal)