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- From: brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder)
- Subject: Re: Channel One (was Re: Tell me about Chapter One funding)
- Message-ID: <BxsGn5.6C9@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
- Organization: Quake Public Access
- References: <1992Nov9.131850.1@cbrown.claremont.edu> <83516@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Nov13.172804.18121@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:06:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.172804.18121@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> klf@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (karen.l.fenton) writes:
- >In article <83516@ut-emx.uucp>, andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:
-
- >I *personally* had a problem with the content. I found most of the
- >material too vapid - it lacked depth.
-
- I find that to be a problem for almost all educational materials.
-
- >And there was the clear
- >message that GOOD == music && age < 24. In fact, the rep who
- >tried to sell us bragged at length that no one under 24 was
- >allowed to appear (except in news shots, like Bush for example)
- >because they believe older people have little or no credibility
- >with kids. Isn't that a *dandy* idea to reinforce!
-
- That's a horrid, but very common kind of idea of what good TV for kids consists
- of.
-
- >We decided to stick with video aids our *teachers* select and the
- >supplement of CNN for news_without_rap.
-
- Do you mean CNN Newsroom? Have you noticed that what they think ought
- to interest kids is coinsidentally identical to the kind of propaganda
- that Ted Turner and Jane Fonda would like kids to be deluged with? Just
- as an experiment, try counting for yourself the percentage of CNN Newsroom
- stories that have something to do with environmentalism. I'd rather have
- them watching McDonalds commercials.
-
- --Brian
-