Re:The Echo Chamber Is the Enemy of Democracy
by jancsika on Friday September 07, 2018 @02:32PM
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> But he was more than willing to provide a forum for people whose leftist ideas he despised, a group that included Noam Chomsky, Muhammad Ali, Saul Alinsky, Allen Ginsburg and John Kenneth Galbraith.
That's revisionist history.
Buckley allowed Noam Chomsky on his show once, sure. But I'd hardly call him "more than willing" to let Chomsky get his ideas across. He was constantly interrupting him. At the end of the interview Buckley even went so far as pressing a button to go to commercial in order to keep from having to answer one of Chomsky's questions.
"Providing a forum" would be what Amy Goodman did by allowing the 9-11 truthers to debate the Popular Science guys on Democracy Now. That's the standard, and Buckley's interview of Chomsky on Firing Line doesn't live up to that standard.
That's revisionist history.
Buckley allowed Noam Chomsky on his show once, sure. But I'd hardly call him "more than willing" to let Chomsky get his ideas across. He was constantly interrupting him. At the end of the interview Buckley even went so far as pressing a button to go to commercial in order to keep from having to answer one of Chomsky's questions.
"Providing a forum" would be what Amy Goodman did by allowing the 9-11 truthers to debate the Popular Science guys on Democracy Now. That's the standard, and Buckley's interview of Chomsky on Firing Line doesn't live up to that standard.