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- From: ad626@yfn.ysu.edu (Steve Crocker)
- Subject: Re: Turn Off Your TV: part 12
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.064403.3453@news.ysu.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:44:03 GMT
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- Tim, thanks for your thoughtful reply, which I do not quote because
- the software here makes quoting very difficult. My response is that
- we can certainly discuss what Judeo-Christian values are, whether they
- are good or bad, and whether or not TV generally or MTV in particular
- undermines them. This would all be worthwhile and interesting. I note
- some odd juxtapositions in passing like cultural elite vs. corporate
- elite and morality vs. economics. I happen to think that the cultural
- elite IS the corporate elite (Hint - who finances Murphy Brown). I also
- believe that economic questions are moral and vice versa.
-
- My main gripe with your original post was that you seemed to be making
- this a "left/right" thing. Unless you want to agree with Pat Robertson
- and his ilk that the "right" has the franchise on traditional values,
- morality, |CHristianity, etc., I'd say that that was a hasty and
- somewhat careless characterization. I think that what TV has done to
- our culture and our powers of reason is something the "left" and the
- "right" can join in deploring. Perhaps if you had caught the installment
- a week or two ago criticizing TV sports the ideological implications
- might have seemed a bit different.
-
- If you're interested, parts 1-8 are available for ftp at
- red.css.itd.umich.edu under /poli/LaRouche. Plus John Covici,
- who has been posting them, has back installments available to email.
- Contact covici@ccs.covici.com
-
- -Steve
-