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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Effects of poor writing? (Long)
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Date: 4 May 89 12:44:23 GMT
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In article <3893@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
>From article <4352@ttidca.TTI.COM>, by hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath):
>" In article <2000@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>" 
>" If you think the crap and pap that even the best of TV programming
>" presents can replace books, you must be pretty illiterate yourself.  Film
>" isn't significantly better and radio isn't even a visual medium.
>
>Let's try to distinguish prediction from wishful thinking, shall
>we?  It can happen that TV replaces books even if you don't
>like that.  Because the future may be horrifying won't keep
>it from happening.  If freedom really depends on literacy, it is
>certainly an odd way of reasoning to assume that we will have
>freedom and to conclude that therefore literacy must endure.

     PLEASE check attributions!  I did not write the above.  I believe "The
Polymath" did.

     The point I was making was that freedom is dependent upon an informed
populace, and that literacy is the cornerstone of the free distribution of
information.  If literacy disappears, I think most freedom will not be far
behind.

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