Show 01: Three Reasons Why You Shouldn't Watch Television
(April 12, 2005 program)
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Reason #1: Television is not informing you
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Reason #1: Television is not informing you
“The machinery of contemporary media is not a minor mechanism. Though today’s media reach more Americans than ever before, they are controlled by the smallest number of owners than ever before. In 1983 there were fifty dominant media corporations; today there are five. These five corporations decide what most citizens will – or will not – learn.”
-- Ben H. Bagdikian, “The New Media Monopoly.” 2004.The Billion Dollar Players: Television Network Revenue Update 2004
"We prefer markets and competition to regulation wherever possible. You've got to have competition first and then deregulation."
-- new FCC chairman Kevin Martin, April 6, 2005
Example #1: General Electric
SEC
RULES IN PETA’S FAVOR IN DISPUTE WITH GENERAL ELECTRIC -- March 24,
2005
Example #2: ExxonMobil
The
Chad Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project: Risky Business
ExxonMobil:
Record Revenue, Production Up
Washington’s
quest for world domination
Behind the Wolfowitz, Bolton appointments
Reason #2: Television is not entertaining you
Television Advertising: Past, Present and Future
The role of advertising in television
Reason #3: Watching television is not good for your body
Television Addiction Identification and Self-Help Guide
The Television Attention Deficit
Television, Diet and Advertising: Why Watching TV Makes You Fat.
Attacks on Judges (Schiavo case)
"An independent judiciary must be a co-equal branch of government.
Judges must be shielded from the pressure of mob politics.
Their job is to interpret fairly and impartially how the law applies to particular
sets of facts, not to bend this way or that based on the passions of the moment."
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday April 10, 2005
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