Ken Burns: preference

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…Isn’t it too slow? People will stop watching? I just don’t get this. I am a big fan of football — much bigger fan of baseball. The games last about the same time. And, as George Will said of football, it has two of America’s worst features: It is violence punctuated by frequent committee meetings. If you are a lover of baseball, which is the best game by far ever invented — there’s no clock; the defense holds the ball (tell me another sport in which the defense holds the ball); that it isn’t the ball scoring or the puck or the pigskin: it’s the person. Every park is different; every other place is uniform. It’s just got so many things in it that are about speed and infinite, chess-like combinations that I just love it. And you can live within it. It’s just — we’ve been told over and over again that this election has been stolen, so people believe it. We have been told over and over again that this is a boring game. Neither are true. Does jazz have a future?…

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