I think the general public needs to broaden their horizons, especially in the UK. We seem all too happy to have our entertainment watered down and easy to digest, the Concorde documentary on Thursday being a prime example.
Nobody seems to want to go the extra yard to increase peoples knowledge and worldly awareness on interesting matters, opting instead to show 'human interest' style cobblers. That's one of the reasons primetime TV will always show simple 'normal people' type documentaries such as Airline. We should take a leaf out of more cultural places like France and Spain.
Television is the most powerfull influence on western people and a big opportunity to increase mankinds intelligence is being missed these days.
[ 08 September 2001: Message edited by: Hannibal Smith ]