[cma-l] DDR and local television‏

[Chris Booth]

Dear Peter,

Thanks for your response.  On this issue I have the Gramscian position: 
pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.  I will continue to argue 
and lobby for local television but having done so for the last four years I 
don't think it will happen.  If this is "defeatism", so be it.  I don't see 
anything in your latest letter to change my views; if anything the evidence 
you cite merely undermines your position, I would have thought.  I answered 
your initial remarks because I wasn't sure what you knew about the issue. 
It's now clear that you are involved in lobbying for LCTV and are informed 
about the matter, though you equally clearly take a diametrically opposite 
view to mine on the good faith and wisdom of those in government and 
bureaucracy whom we need to persuade, and I am happy to leave it at that 
since I don't claim omniscience and an ability to tell the future.   The 
best piece of news in the last year for LCTV was the support for the Early 
Day Motion; that gives me hope that the issue can still be resolved in our 
favour.

Best wishes to you and all who read this,

Chris Booth.





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