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To: budwiesest

Even if you did, you still wouldn't find Michael Copps to your liking as he has the pinched face of the tradional moralist fanatic.

I can't agree with your comparison of free TV to a public park. I've always believed that films and TV function in your minds perception in the same was as dreams - that watching a film is like having a dream while you're awake. It's just imagery. It's not real, but rather celluloid and videotape. You can't control the images you receive while you're dreaming. Legislating content is like trying to control your dreams.


58 posted on 03/01/2005 10:45:50 PM PST by orangelobster
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To: orangelobster
I can't agree with your comparison of free TV to a public park.

Let's agree that there are two realms: public and private. The public sphere is where we might meet uninvited. The private, just the opposite. If I held the door open to the post office for you to enter, you might say, "thanks".

If I knocked over a table that supported your favorite 'blow' at a private party we'd been invited to, your response might be very different.

In short, making millionaires out of those who take things that are private and make them public is objectionable to me. A very simple recipe for success for anyone so inclined.

On my next trip to the post office I'd rather not have to endure an interview between Stern and his guests as to who had sex with a retard, Barbara Walters, John Madden, or anyone else. I'm there to buy stamps and split.

If what seperates the public from the private must be torn down, let it be by those with an ounce more brainpower than MTV, Justin Timberlake, and Janet Jackson in an obviously choreographed skit during a public event such as the superbowl.

61 posted on 03/02/2005 7:16:03 PM PST by budwiesest (Seacrest.....OUT!!)
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