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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com>

New Voyage Communications:

Your postcard announcement of the December 12 Tesla program arrived this 
date, December 15th.

I did watch the program and, as expected, I found the production totally 
dumbed down
for a mass audience. While I understand the need to reach the widest possible
audience, you also resort to the poor taste so common on TV. The photographs 
of the elephant and the electric chair are familiar to many. The electrocution
pictures of the elephant were just tasteless sensationalism. It was never 
mentioned that 
Edison involved himself in the executions as an effort to convince the public 
that AC is
more lethal than DC. He did this to promote his own financial interests in 
the DC
technology.  Nor was any mention made of another photograph of historical 
interest. That is the scene where Tesla is getting into an automobile and 
there, seated next to him, is another scientific genius of that era: Charles 
Steinmetz. 

Edison was an ingenious inventor and tinkerer who happened to be 
in the right place at the right time when the electrical technology was 
young. He lacked the mathematical and scientific ability that Nicholas Tesla 
acquired thru formal education
and his innate qualities.

Once again, your television programming confirms my opinion of a mostly 
dumbed down and tasteless TV medium devoted to prurient sensationalism and 
profit.

Ralph Zekelman
Bloomington, Indiana