Re: Radio,

On Saturday, July 3, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Kitty wrote:

> Well maybe you don't do TV, but I don't do radio.  Too much  
> yackety-yack.
> I don't know Bob Edwards [NPR "Morning Edition" host for 20 years] and  
> I don't even know what ADM [Archer-Daniels-Midland, one of the more  
> notorious denizens of corporate America] 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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