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(22,674 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)Thanks so much for this, pbmus.
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AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)MindMover
(5,016 posts)and subject
carolinayellowdog
(3,247 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 23, 2015, 04:55 PM - Edit history (1)
Who needs Big Brother and reeducation, when people can be "amused" and "entertained" to the point of political impotence?
Links of interest: letter to Orwell from Huxley and Neil Postman on Huxley vs. Orwell (illustrated recently and brilliantly)
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)....they would feel the need to fill the second column with opposing points of view.
For instance:
-How to grow your own food -The dangers of home grown food (Including bugs getting in your house)
erronis
(15,382 posts)such as the left column "What you should know about" and I'll be tuned in full-time.
Right now I have no T.V. and haven't watched one for 3-4 years. Sometimes watch some stupid stuff on streaming video. I enjoy the TED programs mainly.
NPR is OK except they focus way too much on the right column "What the news tells you about". I don't listen to radio other than that.
I subscribe to a pretty decent local paper (Stowe Reporter) and will pick up a random NYT/WSJ. I also like the NewScientist magazine. Most of the rest of the science rags have been inundated with crap advertisements.
The corporations have poisoned the well by trying to "own" everything - the stations/channels, the content, the minds, the tubes. Their like greedy little boys. Perhaps fortunately for them there are lots of robots in living rooms that will suck at their HFCS teats.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)the crap that sells.