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From: toml@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: TV or not TV
Message-ID: <231@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 01:35:41 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  1 01:35:41 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:09:22 EST
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In article  james@denelcor.UUCP (James Torson) writes:
>Gordon A. Moffett writes concerning TV:
>> ... IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T WATCH IT!  ...
>
>Something that sticks in my mind from Jerry Mander's book (Four
>Arguments for the Elimination of TV) is something his son said
>about TV:  "I don't want to watch it, but it makes me watch it."
>

    Jerry Mander's son must be very confused.  TV can't make him watch it,
since it is passive.  If he wants to watch something, it is because he wants
to watch it, not because the TV set locked him in his room and showed him
the program.
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