Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdccs6!loral!simard From: simard@loral.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Selective reporting - (nf) Message-ID: <325@loral.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 02:57:43 EDT Article-I.D.: loral.325 Posted: Sat Aug 4 02:57:43 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 01:03:34 EDT References: <216@loral.UUCP>, <10100060@ea.UUCP>, <61@whuxl.UUCP>, <316@loral.UUCP>, <3309@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA Lines: 21 [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 {ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!loral!simard