FYI: CHOMSKY (1st time ever U.S. TV?) 3-hrs, C-SPAN2, NOON today (EST)

[David Combs]

FWIW: Noam Chomsky: 3hr interview at NOON-EST (+6pm, +Midnight)


Off subject, for sure, but since this guy seems to
be "persona non grata" in U.S. media (although much
seen & heard elsewhere), if you've ever been curious
about him, here's maybe your one and only chance to
see and hear him, *ever* (at least in *this* country).



Even if you're on the mid or far right, you might want
to at least tape the program; maybe a spouse or other
relative or friend might like to see it someday.
Likewise, *you* might "ought" to see it, if only to
better understand the intricacies, strengths, and weaknesses
of the other side's thinking, or for plotting against.



NOTE: this is on C-SPAN2, not C-SPAN ("one").

Pretty much every cable system gets C-SPAN (during the week,
  covers the "House").

Unfortunately, not as many also provide C-SPAN2 (during the week, 
  covers the Senate).

"Booktv" is what  C-SPAN2 calls its weekly weekend-bookprogram, 
consisting of 48-hours of book-discussions, each one led 
by the book's author(s), and usually an hour long.

(As you'll note from the schedule below, many if not most
of the books come from "the right".  Their having Chomsky
is unusual, to say the least.)

Every week or two, they'll interview one author "in detail",
for three hours, and they chose Chomsky for this weekend.

The schedule below says the three-hour interview will be at noon
today (Sunday) (E.S.T.), til 3pm (live, I believe), then repeated
at 6pm (they say til 8, but being three hours long, it must
really end at 9pm?), then once again at midnight, til 3am.

To verify that the scheduled-times haven't changed, check out
C-SPAN2's "booktv" web site, either directly, at www.booktv.org
(click on "schedule"), or get there via c-span2: www.c-span2.org,
and click on "booktv".


----- CALL-INS:

According to the (very) long blurb down below, for the noon to
3pm show, you can phone in with questions & comments, or email
them; perhaps they'll even use C-SPAN's usual two-phone-number
scheme, one for the "left", one for the "right".


------- THIS WEEKEND'S BOOKTV SCHEDULE:

  [NOTE: "Program start times approximate AND ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN",
                       add eg 3 for California]


                     Schedule Grid - Saturday, May 31
                                     
   8:00 am [7]Sol Stern, Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the
   Imperative of School Choice
   9:00 am [8]Douglas Brinkley, Wheels for the World
   10:00 am [9]Robert Patterson, Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness
   Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security
   11:00 am Featured Program: [10]2003 Book Expo-Saturday Coverage
   8:00 pm [11]The Program usually airing at this time has been
   pre-empted for our coverage of BookExpo in Los Angeles
   8:00 pm Featured Program: [12]2003 Book Expo-Saturday Coverage
   11:00 pm [13]The Program usually airing at this time has been
   pre-empted for our coverage of BookExpo in Los Angeles


                      Schedule Grid - Sunday, June 1
   
   5:00 am [14]Robert Harms, Suzannah Lessard, Nicholas Lemann, &
   Samantha Power, Unacknowledged Legislators Panel with Samantha Power,
   Robert Harms, Suzannah Lessard, and Nicholas Lemann
   6:30 am [15]Bill McKibben, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
   7:30 am [16]James Moore & Wayne Slater, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove
   Made George W. Bush Presidential
   8:30 am [17]Milt Bearden & James Risen, The Main Enemy: The Inside
   Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
   10:00 am [18]Ross Terrill, The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means
   for the United States
   11:00 am Encore Booknotes: [19]Peter Brimelow, Alien Nation: Common
   Sense About America's Immigration Disaster

***   12:00 pm Featured Program: [20]In Depth: Noam Chomsky   <<<==== CHOMSKY 3 
HOURS
   3:00 pm Featured Program: [21]2003 Book Expo-Sunday Coverage

***   6:00 pm Featured Program: [22]In Depth: Noam Chomsky   <<<==== CHOMSKY 
3(?) HOURS
   8:00 pm [23]The Program usually airing at this time has been  <----- wrong?
   pre-empted for our coverage of BookExpo in Los Angeles
   9:00 pm Featured Program: [24]2003 Book Expo-Sunday Coverage
   11:00 pm [25]The Program usually airing at this time has been
   pre-empted for our coverage of BookExpo in Los Angeles


          Schedule Grid - Monday, June 2  (ie VERY-LATE SUNDAY NIGHT)
                                     
                                 Programs
***   12:00 am Featured Program: [26]In Depth: Noam Chomsky   <<<==== CHOMSKY 3 
HOURS
                   (SUNDAY MIDNIGHT til 3am)

   3:00 am Featured Program: [27]2003 Book Expo-Sunday Coverage  
   6:00 am [28]William Odom, Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure
   America
   6:45 am [29]Dermot Quinn, Christopher Dawson's "Dynamics of World
   History"



One way or the other, we ought to learn *something*, pro *or* con,
from this guy.



------------- Here's C-SPAN2's blurb for (MIT professor) Chomsky: 


                             Featured Program
                A Weekly Look at Selected Book TV Programs
            ___________________________________________________

                 [Times are E.S.T.: add eg 3 for California]]

    On Sunday, June 1 at 12:00 pm and at 6:00 pm and Monday, June 2 at
                     12:00 am [ie SUNDAY MIDNIGHT]
            ___________________________________________________

   In Depth: Noam Chomsky

   Description: Sunday, June 1 our guest on In Depth will be Noam
   Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT University in Cambridge, MA.
   Mr. Chomsky is a political activist and critic of U.S. Foreign
   Policy. 

   Beginning at 12pm eastern you can call in with your questions
   during the 3 hour program, or e-mail them to booktv@c-span.org. 

   Books by Noam Chomsky: Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory. MIT
   Humanities Library. Microfilm. 1955. Syntactic Structures. The Hague:
   Mouton, 1957. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge: The MIT
   Press, 1965 Cartesian Linguistics. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.
   with Morris Halle. Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper and
   Row, 1968. Language and Mind. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc.,
   1968. American Power and the New Mandarins. New York: Pantheon Books
   and London: Chatto & Windus, 1969. At War with Asia. New York:
   Pantheon Books, 1970. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Berlin and
   New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1970. For Reasons of State. New York:
   Pantheon Books, 1970. Chomsky: Selected Readings, edited by J. Allen
   and P. Van Buren. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Problems of
   Knowledge and Freedom. New York: Pantheon, 1971. Studies on Semantics
   in Generative Grammar. The Hague: Mouton, 1972. with Edward S.
   Herman. Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and
   Propaganda, Module no. 57 Andover, MA: Warner Modular Publications,
   1973. The Backroom Boys. Fontana/Collins: Great Britain, 1973. Peace
   in the Middle East? New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. Reflections on
   Language. New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. Essays on Form and
   Interpretation. North-Holland: Elsevier, 1977. Language and
   Responsibility. New York: Pantheon, 1978. Intellectuals and the
   State. Baarn, Netherlands: Internationale, Het Wereldvenster, 1978.
   East Timor and the Western Democracies. Spokesman Pamphlet, no. 67.
   Nottingham, UK: Spokesman, 1979. with Edward S. Herman. The Political
   Economy of Human Rights, vol. 1, The Washington Connection and Third
   World Fascism and vol. 2, After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and
   the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology. Boston: South End Press,
   1979. Rules and Representations. New York: Columbia University Press
   and Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher, 1980. Between Massacres and
   Media, Debate on Press and the Intellectuals, edited by Change
   Collective (in Italian). Milan: Shakespeare and Co., 1981. Radical
   Priorities, edited by C.P. Otero. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1981.
   Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures. Holland: Foris
   Publications, 1981. Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current
   Crisis and How We Got There. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. Myth and
   Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy. East Timor Human Rights Committee
   1982. with J. Steele and J. Gittings. Super Powers in Collision, The
   New Cold War. England: Penguin Books, 1982. Language and the Study of
   Mind. Tokyo: Sansyusya Publishing Co. Ltd., 1982. Some Concepts and
   Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding. Linguistic
   Inquiry Monograph Six. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1982. Noam Chomsky
   on The Generative Enterprise, A discussion with Riny Hyybregts and
   Henk van Riemsdijk. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1982. The Fateful
   Triangle: Israel, the United States, and the Palestinians. Boston:
   South End Press, 1983 and Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1984. Responses
   Inedites. A mes detracteurs parisiens. Paris: Spartacus, 1984.
   Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind. San Diego: State
   University Press, 1984. Escrits Politiques: 1977-1983. Peyrehoradel,
   France: Editions Acratie, 1984. Centroamerica en la prensa
   estadunidense. Entrevistas y textos de Noam Chomsky, edited by H.
   Dieterich. Coyoacan, Mexico: Mex-Sur Editorial S.A., 1985. Turning
   the Tide. U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for
   Peace. Boston: South End Press, 1985. with M. Albert, L. Cagan, R.
   Hahnel, M. King, L. Sargent, and H. Sklar. Liberating Theory. Boston:
   South End Press, 1986. Os Estados Unidos e Timor-Leste. Cascais,
   Portugal: Mandragora, 1986. Pirates & Emperors. International
   Terrorism in the Real World. New York: Claremont Research and
   Publications, 1986. Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and
   Use. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986. Barriers. Linguistic Inquiry
   Monograph Thirteen. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1986.
   Arbeit Sprache Freiheit. Trafik, Mulheim an der Ruhr, 1987. On Power
   and Ideology:The Managua Lectures. Montreal and New York: Black Rose
   Books, 1987. The Chomsky Reader, edited by J. Peck. New York:
   Pantheon Books, New York, 1987. On Power and Ideology, The Managua
   Lectures. Boston: South End Press and Montreal and New York: Black
   Rose Books, 1987. Language and Problems of Knowledge. The Managua
   Lectures. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1987 Language in a
   Psychological Setting. Sophia Linguistica: Working Papers in
   Linguistics, no. 22, 1987. The Culture of Terrorism. Boston: South
   End Press, 1988. The Culture of Terrorism. Montreal and New York:
   Black Rose Books, 1988. Language and Politics, edited by C. Otero.
   Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, 1988. Generative Grammar:
   Its Basis, Development and Prospects. Studies in English Linguistics
   and Literature, Special Issue, 1988. with E. Herman. Manufacturing
   Consent. The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon
   Books, 1988. Necessary Illusions. Thought Control in Democratic
   Societies. Boston: South End Press; London: Pluto Press; Montreal,
   Toronto, New York, London: CBC Enterprises, 1989. On U.S. Gulf
   Policy. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, no 1. Westfield, NJ:Open
   Media, 1991. The New World Order. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, no.
   6. Westfield,NJ: Open Media, 1991. Media Control: The Spectacular
   Achievements of Propaganda. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, no. 10.
   Westfield, NJ: Open Media, 1991. The Power Of The New Order (in
   German). Summary of speech by Noam Chomsky given on May 4, 1992. What
   Uncle Sam Really Wants. Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1992. Chronicles
   of Dissent. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1992. Enter a World
   That Is Truly Surreal: President Clinton's Sudden Use ofInternational
   Violence. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, Special Broadside.
   Westfield, NJ: Open Media, 1993. Letters from Lexington: Reflections
   on Propaganda. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press and Toronto, Ontario:
   Between the Lines, 1993.. Year 501: The Conquest Continues. Boston:
   South End Press, 1993. Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and
   U.S. Political Culture. Boston: South End Press, 1993. The Prosperous
   Few and the Restless Many. Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1993. Die
   Herren Der Welt. Berlin: Mink Verlag, 1993. Discurs Politic: Tres
   Converencies a Catalunya. Barcelona: Editorial Empuries, 1993.
   Language and Thought. Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, 1993. World Orders,
   Old and New. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1994.
   Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David Barsamian. Monroe,
   ME: Common Courage Press, 1994. Secrets, Lies and Democracy.
   Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1994. East Timor: Genocide in Paradise.
   Tucson, AZ: Odonian Press, 1995. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge,
   MA: The MIT Press, 1995 Class Warfare: Interviews with David
   Barsamian. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1996. Powers and
   Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order. St.
   Leonards, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1996. The Common Good. The Real
   Story Series, edited by Authur Niaman. Monroe, ME: Common Courage
   Press, Odonian Press, 1998. On Language: Chomskys Classsic Works
   Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One
   Volume. New York: The New Press, 1998. The Umbrella of U.S. Power:
   The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of
   U.S. Policy. The Open Media Pamphlet Series, edited by Greg Ruggiero
   and Stuart Sahulka, no. 9. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999.
   Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order. New York: Seven
   Stories Press, 1999. The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo.
   Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1999. Derivation by Phase, MIT
   Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 18, Cambridge, MA: MIT Working
   Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistic and Philosophy, 1999.
   New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. Cambridge, England:
   Cambridge University Press, 2000. The Architecture of Language,
   edited by Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik andRama
   Kant Agnihotri. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. Minimalist
   Inquiries: The Framework. In Step by Step: Essays in Minimalist
   Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik, edited by Robert Martin, David
   Michaels and Juan Uriagereka, 89-155. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press,
   2000. Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs. Cambridge,
   MA: South End Press, 2000. A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo,
   East Timor and the Standards of the West. London and New York: Verso,
   2000. Chomsky on MisEducation, edited and introduced by Donaldo
   Macedo. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Atti di
   aggressione e di controllo, Milano: Marco Tropea Editore, 2000. Actos
   de agresión, Barcelona: Editorial Crítica, 2000. Propaganda and the
   Public Mind: Conversatioins with Noam Chomsky. Cambridge, MA: South
   End Press, 2001.. La Conférence DAlbuquerque. Paris: Editions Allia,
   2001. De la guerre comme politique étrangère des États-Unis,
   Marseille: Agone Éditeur; Montreal: Comeau & Nadeau Éditeurs, 2001.
   Instinct de liberté: Anarchisme et socialisme. Montreal: Comeau &
   Nadeau Éditeurs; Marseille: Agone Éditeur, 2001. 9-11. An Open Media
   Book, edited by Greg Ruggerio. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001.
   Deux heures de lucidité: Entretiens avec Denis Robert et Weronika
   Zarachowicz. Paris: Èditions des Arènes 2001. De lespoir en lavenir:
   Entretiens sur lanarchisme et le socialisme. Montreal: Comeau &
   Nadeau Éditeurs; Marseille: Agone Éditeur, 2001. Amerikan
   müdahaleciligi. Istanbul: Aram Yayincilik, 2001. Su natura e
   linguaggio (On Nature and Language), edited by Adriana Belletti and
   Luigi Rizzi. Siena, Italy, 2001. On Nature and Language, edited by
   Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi. Cambridge, England: Cambridge
   University Press, 2002 Understanding Power: The Indispensable
   Chomsky, edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel. The New
   Press, 2002. Pirates & Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism
   in the Real World. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002. Power and
   Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews. Edited by John Junkerman and
   Takei Masakazu. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003. Chomsky on
   Democracy and Education. Edited by Carlos P. Otero. New York and
   London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.

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