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I know that “La Pantoja” gets more TV coverage than the war in Iraq,
and that it is a pity. Wonderful things happen around us all the
time, but we are bombard all time with events do not contribute to
our personal growth. "La Pantoja", other people extra marital
affairs appear on the news and flood our homes every day, seven days
of the week, three hundred sixty five days per year.
Karl Marx said "religion opium of people". Now, I say, that the
media, TV, has become the new opiate of the masses. TV timetable are
full of programmes which only sensationalise bad news. There appear
to be few truly informative educational programs.
Perhaps though, given the world we live, it is fast past, it's
extremes of poverty and wealth, the threats to public safety over
concerns of global and environmental, not to mention terrorism, it
is not surprising that television should mirror this, and in reality
the public do choose then own TV viewing, trivial as it may appear
sometimes. It could be argued television truly is own drug of choice.
Billy — 30-01-2006 01:03:55