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In austin.general mapanari <mapanari@earthlink.nut> wrote:
> You might want to know, that hysterical bad reporting that came out a couple
> of weeks ago about the "facts" about day care and aggresive children has
> been generally discredited in intelligent circles, which means the news
> media has moved on and can't be bothered fixing the headlines or reporting
> any truth that won't pander to the lowest common denominator.

I'm not especially surprised -- the media tends to jump on 
any kind of "cute" correlative study and promote the hell 
out of it, with little if any concern for validity, or caveats
on how seriously the 'results' can be taken.

*sigh* the media in general -- I don't know how most of these
"journalists" get to sleep at night. It just kills me how often
the local news will do these "tie-in" stories keyed off of a
teevee show that aired in the previous timeslot -- the other 
night, during _The Practice_, the news commercials were hawking
a special report about "Austin's real-life rape crisis counselor".

Actually, that's one of the more innocuous examples -- what really
gets me is when, oh, there's a movie like _Twister_ coming out,
and (oddly enough) the local news all had "special reports" on
tornadoes and severe weather. Do ya think there was some money
changing hands here???

Methinks that the big news story we'll _never_ see is just how
close-knit the entire media/entertainment industry is.

Craig

> mapi

> "Craig Becker" <jlpicard@serv1.jump.net> wrote in message
> news:9cv3n9$rvp$1@news.jump.net...
>> First off, for some reason I can't access the article anymore,
>> but Lyn: yes, I _am_ Travid III, and if you're a cute hirsute
>> Jewish woman I'd love to get together sometime and tell you
>> how Jesus and Rush Limbaugh changed my life . . . <g> *
>>
>> Mapi, I really wasn't trying to be holier than thou -- it just
>> struck me that someone who says
>>
>> > . . .  Their kids, the ones raised by
>> > institutions instead of parents, are more likely to end up costing
>> > society in later years.
>>
>> is pretty obviously childless, otherwise they'd realize that
>> the vast majority of children in this country are indeed raised
>> by "institutions", regardless of how their parents choose to
>> divvy up the wage-earning responsibilities: From the age of
>> about 5 on up, most children spend 6 or 7 hours a day in an
>> institution called "school". It may be a public institution --
>> it may be a private institution -- but unless they're being
>> homeschooled, the kids are spending a lot of time in an
>> "institutional environment", and it's been going on for a long,
>> long time.
>>
>> What's that? Oh, it's being in a daycare "institution" for the
>> first 5 years that causes a child to become a warped burden on
>> society? Get real.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> * for the sake of anyone who's going to give me grief on this,
>>   yes I _have_ met Lyn and I realize that she is neither hirsute
>>   nor Jewish -- although she _is_ awfully cute, but I'll stop
>>   while I'm ahead :)
>>
>> In austin.general mapanari <mapanari@earthlink.nut> wrote:
>> > That's like telling a psychologist that he couldn't possibly understand
>> > degenerative mental depression because, well, he just never has had the
> same
>> > problems.
>>
>> > What is is with people who screw and pop out children that makes them
> think
>> > they're so wise and holier than thou and strut around making comments
> like
>> > "well, if you've never had children then you couldn't possibly know what
> I'm
>> > talking about"?
>>
>> > I've heard that it really doesn't take a college degree and intelligence
> to
>> > learn how to make babies.
>> > In fact, I was very bright as a youngun, and I learned at about 9.
>> > You?
>> > ;-)
>> > Come on Craigmeister!
>>
>> > mapi
>>
>>
>>
>> > "Craig Becker" <jlpicard@serv1.jump.net> wrote in message
>> > news:9cu99b$6nc$1@news.jump.net...
>> >> In austin.general Gary Carson <garycarson@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> >> > I'm not so sure thats bad.  Their kids, the ones raised by
>> >> > institutions instead of parents, are more likely to end up costing
>> >> > society in later years.
>> >>
>> >> Say what?!?!?!
>> >>
>> >> I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you're not a parent,
>> >> right?
>> >>
>> >> Craig
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