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Thread ID: 3521 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2002-11-15
2002-11-15 03:46 | User Profile
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Why, against all common sense, is Newsweek going to try and convince us that television is good for kids?
Well, one reason might be: Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Company, which owns a sprawling cable company and six broadcast stations around the country.
Of course, nowhere in the article does Newsweek tell us this.
And how does Newsweek try and convince us that TV is good for kids?
They trot out an expert, Daniel Anderson, a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, who claims that TV is good for kids.
But what Newsweek doesn't tell us is Anderson is a paid consultant to a variety of television networks and advertising interests.
His clients include: NBC, CBS, Universal Pictures, Sony, General Mills, the Leo Burnett ad agency, Nickelodeon and the National Association of Broadcasters.
2002-11-15 03:54 | User Profile
If you maintain a cable/satellite TV subscription, you're financing your own destruction.