Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/31

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: National Geographic scandal
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:07:34 -0400

Beyond that, no informed person ever got their information on "current
events" from books and college courses. Newspapers, then newspapers and
radio, then newspapers, radio, and magazines;then newspapers, radio,
magazines, and television - etc. Certainly the media are changing, but
Cspan is hardly the answer to our current problems.....
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Dan C
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 5:50 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: National Geographic scandal


Have you see what books sell for these days?  And with people working
60-80
hours a week, is there time to be able to go to the library?   TV fills
a
very usefull role.

dan c.


At 05:31 PM 31-08-03 EDT, Afterswift@aol.com wrote:
>
>Books and good college courses were supposed to fill us in on what 
>happened
>to and in the world. That's all in the past and serves a minority
nowadays. 
>Besides we always need refreshers to keep us up to date. 
>And it's impossible to attend every great concert in a single lifetime.
So 
>there is TV and Radio, CDs, DVDs and the Net are coming on strong with
audio and 
>video to take up the slack. The problem is to get all that good stuff
without 
>having to waste time and patience waiting through commercials.  We've 
>got to
>establish institutions that can do that for us despite a corpcrat
controlled 
>state and congress. So, let's get into politics and vote for democrats
with a 
>small d and shell out for public venue TV and radio and Net sites.

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