Re: Df photos of greenhouse

Very insightful.  I do watch more tv than I should, but I don't think of
myself as fearful.  The items I mentioned have yielded feelings more akin to
bewilderment and/or disgust.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Df photos of greenhouse


> Does seem that we've had more than a normal amount of disappoints the
> last couple of years.
>
> George Gerbner, the dean emeritus of Penn's Annenberg School of
> Communications died Christmas eve. He made a career of associating
> human behavior with TV violence. Gerbner believed people no longer
> learned their cultural identity from family, schools, churches, and
> communities but from "a handful of conglomerates who have something to
> sell." In 1981, he told Congress people who watch large amounts of
> television are more likely to believe that the world is a frightening
> place. "Fearful people are more dependent," he said, "more easily
> manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple,
> strong, tough measures, and hard-line postures... They may accept and
> even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities."
>
> Thought you might be interested.
>
> On Jan 3, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing
> Center wrote:
>
> > It's just all toooooooooooooooo much!  what the heck is going on?
> > Storms,
> > mudslides, terrorists, fires, earthquakes, GWB, tsunamis, hurricanes,
> > wiretapping, drought, floods, and idiots throw caged cats off bridges!
> >  It's
> > one disaster after another.  Stop the world, I want to get off!
> >
> > Kitty
> >
>
> James Singer
> Executive Editor
> The American Encyclopedia of Moot Questions
>
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