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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Effects of poor writing? (Long)
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Date: 8 May 89 19:24:12 GMT
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In article <366@itcatl.UUCP> jonathan@itcatl.UUCP (Jonathan Peterson) writes:
}I would hope that someday TV will rise above the crap it currently feeds us.
}With 60 channels on cable I am rarely offered more than 1-3 things worth
}watching, often nothing.

At least we agree on this point.  The major effect of cable and satellite
TV has been to add much acreage to "the great wasteland".

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