Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Give me a break
Maybe a bunch of aliens crept out of Ted Turner's television sets and invaded his head. That sounds silly, I know, but it would explain the venom he spewed yesterday at Fox News (see story, here). It's tempting and would be simplest to dismiss his rantings as another bout of gratuitous foolishness but it was so over the top that I feel compelled to say something. I'm not an uncritical fan of either CNN or Fox, for different reasons, but I cannot believe anyone thinks a television network can destroy or even significantly effect the social order. Television is a hugely important part of our lives, for sure, but that's not the same thing as removing our brains and replacing our thoughts. I bet some of both networks' viewers know how to read and write and everything. Maybe even decide what makes sense to them and what doesn't, what they believe or don't. Isn't tv just one piece of a great big collection of lots of different places from which we get information? Trust some sometimes, dismiss some sometimes, hate some, switch around, ignore them all, whatever? Turner should do deep breathing exercises or something.... OK, I'm done. I had to say something.
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