TV-Media

News Media Hype and the Price of Gas

“[The news media] should not subtract from the public’s understanding. Yet subtract they nowadays do with endless headlines and talk about ‘record’ oil and gasoline prices. For example, a recent headline in the Financial Times proclaimed: ‘New York investors take flight after price of oil hits record high.’ But the story’s fifth paragraph read: ‘West [...]

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TV Kills

From Adam Curry [ http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000001/2004/04/06.html#a5496 ]: I remember as a kid the stories that circulated around television usage. Of course the kid next door was doing poorly at school, his brain was rotting away because he watched too much tv! I think I recall another one about it causing cancer, which was probably too big [...]

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TV News

“The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”—David Brinkley

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Quotes about Television

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx (1890-1977) “Television: chewing gum for the eyes. “Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) “Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.” Richard Milhous Nixon (b.1913) “The problem is not that television presents [...]

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Zen TV Experiment

Zen TV Experiment [ http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/tvturnoff/toolbox/zentv.html ] “The problem is not that TV presents us with entertaining subject matter, but that TV presents all subject matter as entertaining. This transcends TV and spills over into our post-TV life experiences. TV trains us to orient toward and tune in to the entertainment quality of any experience, event, [...]

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Media: What Trust?

My Comments to Dan Gillmor on the lecture [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2002/lecture5_text.shtml ]: Truth is relative and changing. If one looks at religion or politics, one can quickly see people who have developed perceptions of issues which are diametrically opposed. Is it deception to not be willing or able to craft a middle of the road piece? [...]

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Is life without television cruel and unusual punishment?

A 60-year-old man was sentenced to house arrest without television “in order that he have ample opportunity to reflect on the ways of harm he has brought to his family.” The defendant was willing to go for the deal rather than face prison, but his lawyers were outraged. “Given the state of the world and [...]

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Breaking the TV Addiction

From Television Addiction in Scientific American: [thanks MMF] Perhaps the most ironic aspect of the struggle for survival is how easily organisms can be harmed by that which they desire. The trout is caught by the fisherman’s lure, the mouse by cheese. But at least those creatures have the excuse that bait and cheese look [...]

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