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"There is Truth on Television" | August 01, 2007

This article in the New York Times is one of the more amusing articles on television I've seen in a while. It's about the burgeoning impact of television in Afghanistan, a country where television viewing was illegal under the Taliban. Here are a couple of my favorite quotes from the article.

Each night, people in Kabul obey the beckoning of prime time much as they might otherwise answer the call to prayer. “As you can see, there is truth on the television, because all over the world the mother-in-law is always provoking a fight,” said Muhammad Farid...

We’ve just bought the rights to ‘24,’ the American show,” he said. “We had some concerns. Most of the bad guys are Muslims, but we did focus groups and it turns out most people didn’t care about that so long as the villains weren’t Afghans.

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