Talk:Firing Line

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Contents 1 Frank Zappa interview on FL 2 Balance 3 Great NYT article on FL: 4 Politeness of FL 5 Strange Sentence

[edit] Frank Zappa interview on FL

Is it worth mentioning the time when Frank Zappa made all the examiners look like absolute idiots? It's probably the most famous episode.

I have not yet found any existing references to that interview on the web. I believe that the interview occurred, but I have to wonder about its fame. -- Pinktulip 08:54, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Any interview on FL with Frank Zappa is definitely not the most famous episode... I'm afraid to say that the only people that probably remember it are die-hard Frank Zappa fans, and nobody else. Almost without saying, if you Google "Frank Zappa Firing Line" it brings up nothing that is relevant to the public affairs series.

[edit] Balance

I think the Chomsky incident gets too much room as compared to most of the rest of the over 1500 episodes of Firing Line that went on the air. As compared to the rudeness of the show Crossfire, FL was polite, thoughtful and balanced. I have shortened the reference to Chomsky. The Chomsky incident was one show. Plesae find additional information about the other episodes of FL before adding any Chomsky details back in. -- Pinktulip 16:59, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great NYT article on FL:

NYT did a great article on this show, but is behind a password. Here is the info and first paragraph:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/07/16/specials/buckley-firing15.html

February 25, 1981 Buckley's 'Firing Line' Celebrates 15 Years By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

Conversation, the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset once remarked, is the socializing instrument par excellence. Yesterday conversation was in particularly fine form at the New York Yacht Club, where about 300 of its finest practitioners gathered to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Firing Line, William F. Buckley Jr.'s weekly colloquy, telecast by the Public Broadcasting Service.

-- Pinktulip 13:06, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Politeness of FL

This statement seems a little POV if you ask me, yes Crossfire was less polite, but the Hardball seems pretty wrong, well, somewhat at least, what about O'Reilly or Hannity, they're pretty damn rude if you ask me. --Saint-Paddy 17:45, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Strange Sentence

"The show might be compared in politeness and erudition to other national public interview shows, specifically Charlie Rose or Terry Gross, but Buckley was clearly interested in debate and not afraid to occasionally remind the viewer that his point of view was specifically Roman Catholic."

This statement seems to be a very subtle example of POV. It looks innocuous on the outside but look at the syntax. The sentence uses a Even-But type phrasing. Even though it might be compared in politeness and erudition......but his point of view was Roman Catholic. It makes it seem as if erudition and politeness are in direct opposition to Roman Catholicism or having a Roman Catholicism influenced worldview. I get what the sentence is trying to say but there might be a better way of phrasing it.

--Anonymous Wikipedian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.180.201.116 (talk) 00:10, 8 September 2007 (UTC)