Is It To Reinforce Competition

That television 'entertains' us with quizzes?
It can't be out of wanting viewers
to be more enlightened-that woud mean
television being slow and reaching out
beyond itself into real worlds and history,
and providing booklets with references.

What I will never 'get' is why people think
distant competition is such a good.thing.
It must be to remind people too old
to remember what their exams were actually like
-and make them seem exciting with hindsight.   
 

The Life We Turn On And Off In The Corner

'Television is more interesting
than people, if it were not
we would have people
standing in the corners
of our rooms'-Alan Coren

Reform Through Consumerism

In the midst of a riot
the Sky News reporter
shouted at the looter
'Where are you going
with that television?'

The looter replied
'I am taking it home,
to 'believe in better'*
through watching
Sky satellite news.

If they show this clip

we will both be on it.'.



*Sky's advertising strap-line.