In high school, you say? Indeed, a wonderful course...that ought to be required everywhere.
My hat is off to Mrs. Gulick! The intrigue is what the term "government-sponsored" means. The folks at Radio Netherlands will argue voiciferously that Dutch law and tradition provides sufficient separation from the funders and the editors such that editorial integrity is not compromised. Whether or not one wishes to divine agendas for all public or private broadcasters, I'll agree 100% that every broadcaster has some sort of agenda, and we owe it to ourselves to be comparative listeners. Richard C On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Scott Royall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, maybe my high school education in Baton Rouge was unique. It > apparently was, according to your opinion. One of the courses I took was > something called "Media Comprehension," taught by a feisty little old > English teacher. The course covered a spectrum of topics from the six > strategies behind all advertising to decoding and filtering all news > sources. The last thing Mrs. Gulick wanted was for us to depend on > government-sponsored news. _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list Swprograms@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.