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From: simard@loral.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Selective reporting - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 02:57:43 EDT
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[Do not write in this space]

One of the aspects of biased television reporting that bothers me
is the effect on the half-attentive listener.  In so many homes,
the TV is running as "audible wallpaper" during the evening, and
the words of Dan Rather et. al. are half-consciously noted between
kids screaming and whatnot.   These words escape the scrutiny of
conscious attention and simplistic, distorted ideas can lodge easily
in the mind without the person knowing it.  Witness the number of people
to talk about budget cuts in programs that have increased - only the
amount of increase *initially proposed* was cut.  Many of these people
who do not supplement their view of the world around them with reading
take their gut impressions to the voting booth with them, effectively
cancelling the informed votes of those who invest time in gaining awareness
of their world.

-- 
Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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