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Gilder and Gingrich met in the early '80s, at the time when Wealth and Poverty was making waves. "I've had a friendly relationship with him for years," Gilder says, "particularly with the people around him." Gilder admits he does not have the close friendship with the new Speaker that the Tofflers enjoy. "But," he adds, "my ideology is more akin to Gingrich's." He also claims he knows more than the Tofflers do about such new technologies as fiber optics and semiconductors. "That's my business. Gingrich is interested in it. He's consulted me from time to time...
...states as they now artificially exist, of centralized authority, of outmoded political alliances and of all old-fashioned restraints on entrepreneurial imaginations. It is not hard to grasp why Gingrich the conservative outsider found this prospective shake-up attractive. But now that he has become the ultimate insider, the Speaker's reaction to the rich potential for cyberspace anarchy -- which apparently worries neither the Tofflers nor Gilder -- will be interesting to watch. Putting congressional proceedings online, which Gingrich has already facilitated, is one thing. Pornography and all sorts of seditious twaddle are online too, where sophisticated children can track them...
...there, listeners! This is Rash Lambaste, the liberals' Limbaugh, with all the news you need to know. Well, we just had another beaut from Newt. The Speaker hired a House historian who thought Nazism should be taught in schools. That's good sound Republicanism: instead of condoms, let's distribute SS armbands. Newt dumped her, but in the nicest way: he visited her and served her with divorce papers. And how about term limits, that great notion of an electorate that can't trust themselves to vote the rascals out? Old Guard Republicans must love that! Newt...
WHEN EXECUTIVES REPRESENTing 88 public-TV stations gathered in Washington last week to talk about the Republican-led campaign to end federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, they came not to praise high-toned PBS shows like Masterpiece Theatre and Live From Lincoln Center. Instead speaker after speaker trooped up to the microphone to tell stories of poor viewers in rural areas for whom PBS is a treasured companion; of fire fighters and police officers who take classes via local public-TV outlets; of children whose lives would be made joyless if such familiar PBS friends as Big Bird...
Public TV's defenders, too, are marshaling their forces and arguments. Bill Moyers, speaking to a press conference this month, caustically noted the role that for-profit cable networks -- PBS's competitors -- have played in providing a platform for Gingrich's attacks: the new House Speaker has his own show on National Empowerment Television, a conservative cable network, and was recently inveighing against the CPB in an hourlong interview on C-SPAN. Moyers expressed suspicion of "publicly supported politicians in the service of a commercial industry that, frankly, would like to see public television not exist...