Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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..... - -----Original Message----- 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. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html