Imagine if all this time dedicated to basketball was allocated to Piketty's new book

[merrily]

55. Actually, I did not exclude anything but public television.

I simply honored your exclusion of cable.

I don't know why you threw Entertainment Tonight into the discussion.

I threw entertainment tonight into the discussion because you claimed, with no reason so to do, that I was looking for thoughtful discussion on entertainment shows. And you did not specify you were still talking about channels like MSNBC, which I had eliminated from consideration as soon as you mentioned them. Shows like Entertainment Tonight were, as far as I know, the only kind of entertainment shows left.

Some of the news shows that like to portray themselves as more credible don't say things like "Molly Cyrus twerked in a skimpy outfit." They say things about the reaction to her twerking making news or causing controversy. But they still do cover it.

What irks me is the suggestion in the OP that racism is less worthy of attention that this book.

The OP says, in its entirety:

Imagine if all this time dedicated to basketball was allocated to Piketty's new book
We would change the economic debate.

I did not read the OP as you did, or even as the thread parent later described it.

I read it very literally and commented that we don't get much quality discussion about anything, including race. But I did not write the OP. I am talking about the exchanges between you and me abut my post. My entire post was about the paucity of quality discussion of any subject, including about race. I never said there was zero quality discussion of any subject and I never even mentioned the book, per se. I certainly never said or implied that racism should not be covered.

So, I did wonder about all the trouble you went to to link to discussions about the book.

But, it seems we agree after all and have been talking at cross purposes.