People often confuse the message with the medium. Have you ever seen NOVA or Ken Burns's series on the civil war? I know so much about this world because of TV. Just because the National Enquirer is printed on ink and paper doesn't mean reading it is ''time well spent.'' Believe it or not, in the post-invention-of-TV-world, there is less warfare, ignorance, racism and hatred then there ever was before TV came along. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of crap on TV, but the viewer has the ultimate power -- the on/off button!
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