Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliveb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!oliveb!toml 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 Article-I.D.: oliveb.231 Posted: Sat Dec 1 01:35:41 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:09:22 EST References: <292@ut-sally.UUCP> <255@scc.UUCP> <595@amdahl.UUCP>Reply-To: toml@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long) Distribution: na Organization: D&L U., Thaumaturgy Lines: 17 Summary: 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. -- -- Dave Long -- {fortune,idi,ios,hplabs,tymix}!oliveb!toml {allegra,ihnp4,msoft,tty3b,uvacs}!oliveb!toml