Re: Radio,

Well maybe you don't do TV, but I don't do radio.  Too much yackety-yack.
I don't know Bob Edwards and I don't even know what ADM is.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Franzman" <dfranzma@pacbell.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Radio, was prayers needed


> They shouldn't have fired good ol' Bob Edwards.  I liked that guy!  I also
> wish they would find a different sponsor besides ADM (Super Market to the
> World)
>
> David Franzman
> A Touch of the Tropics
> www.atouchofthetropics.net
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:29 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Radio, was prayers needed
>
>
> > Speaking of radio, did anyone else hear the NPR news staff and
> > commentators read the Declaration of Independence this morning? At
> > first I was annoyed [I am easily annoyed at 6:00 AM], but by the end I
> > was quite taken by it. If you want, you should be able to hear it at
> > www.npr.org [click on "archives" and look around]. There seem to be
> > some policy similarities between George the III and George the
> > W--particularly regarding habeas corpus.
> >
> >
> > On Friday, July 2, 2004, at 03:36 PM, Andrea H wrote:
> >
> > > Marge and Judy, you are both so right. Sometimes I'm appalled at what
I
> > > myself accept as "not so bad" or "normal" these days. I usually back
> > > up and
> > > go wait a minute, that's a horrible thing to show on TV, or say on the
> > > radio, etc. Even the morning shows now are full of things that were
> > > simply
> > > not tolerated when I was a child. I can remember the first time I
> > > heard the
> > > word 'damn' on TV and was amazed.  And yes, freedom of speech has
> > > turned
> > > into say anything you want, no matter how vile, obscene (although
those
> > > REALLY smart people in DC still haven't clearly defined that word) or
> > > even
> > > ludicrous. That's another thing that amazes me, the TV shows that
> > > people
> > > watch not for the violent content, but for the sheer stupidity of the
> > > content. Just don't get it.  OK, I'll stop.
> > > A
> > >
> > > Andrea H
> > > Beaufort, SC
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Judy L Browning" <judybrowning@lewiston.com>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:36 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Prayers needed
> > >
> > >
> > >> Marge, you stated this very well, may I quote you? I am apalled my
> > >> what my
> > >> grandkids all preteen, accept as "normal" based on what they see on
> > >> the
> > >> tube.
> > >> From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> > >>> Personally (showing my age), I think TV and Hollywood are
> > >>> exacerbating the situation and our freedom of speech (which I value)
> > >>> has been distorted as a permission to produce worse and worse
violent
> > >>> trash for consumption by younger and younger humans...after a while,
> > >>> the horror subsides and they become inured to violence; think it is
> > >>> normal...then, that spills over into other aspects of life.
Consider
> > >>> the prevalence of road rage and other sorts of "rages" that seem to
> > >>> happen every day now.
> > >>
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