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Re: RTE Plans Internet Over The Air

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From: Robert Fahey
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:00
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In article <19990211170639113377@p1.sligo1.tinet.ie>, Tommy
<kfuzzbox@SPAMJAMtinet.ie> writes

>> Good points made there ... but there is *some* good stuff on RTE...

>Sure like Paddy O'Gormon's programme on Ballymun the other night was
>excellent and Ear to the Ground is a well made show. Questions and
>Answers is good only in the sense that I can feel better about my own
>life by laughing at the people in the studio audience. 

I'm always amused by the red-faced bad tempered farmers with no dress
sense in the audience. They're great entertainment... ^_^

>Apart from that it is shite.

I think you'll find that's a basic fact about most TV in the western
world. It all assumes that it's audience is made up of morons. Actually
getting you to _think_ would be way too radical a move.

Sad thing is, if you treat people like that for long enough, they _do_
become morons!

Mata ne!
Rob
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From: Robert Fahey <robertf@iol.ie>
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Date: 1999/02/11
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