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In article <1992Aug17.204231.27166@news.unomaha.edu> trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre) writes:
>gary@isis.cgd.ucar.edu  writes:
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>> sm> Stephen McIntyre
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>>sm> [E]ducation is the best way to help society protect itself from the
>>sm> blatherings and blubberings of political and/or religious propaganda.  It
>>sm> would be a good tool in creating a more unified, and informed, world.
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>[Gary Strand]
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>gs]   Under a WG, who will run the education system? The WG? If so, you should 
>gs]   examine what's been happening with education in the US. If anything, too
>gs]   many citizens are becoming *more* susceptible to government propaganda.
>gs]   Read Chmosky or Chomsky-lite (ie, Harel) to see what I mean. 
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>Let the individual countries run their own school systems (as the
>     states do here.)  Better yet, allow private enterprise to run 
>     the schools.  
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>Citizens become more susceptable to propaganda precisely because they
>     lack a good education.  With T.V. and commercial magazines doing 
>     the thinking for them, people are killing off their minds, 
>     strangling the very thing that could protect them from irrational
>     pinheads with a presuasive voice and power on the mind.  So, what
>     can we do then?  Keep T.V. from the people?  Regulate the hours
>     a station can run programming?  I don't know.  Any suggestions?
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>> Gary Strand                      Opinions stated herein are mine alone and are
>> strandwg@ncar.ucar.edu            not representative of NCAR, UCAR, or the NSF

simple restrict television advertising. This is ALL the restriction
neccessary for television then. Television will become more educational
and less commercially-consumeradvocating pander to the lowest common
denomenator. Look the best television is on the channels without
commercials PBS TVO BBC etc... 
I REST MY CASE
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