Advertising on the P-list (was: the Tube in VL)

Terrance Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Thu Jul 6 14:51:12 CDT 2000



jbor wrote:
> 
> This sounds too much like a '60 Minutes' beat-up or politician's screed,
> specifically designed to induce hysteria and general condemnation (and boost
> ratings), but totally unfounded: 'Kids Today Can't Read or Write',
> 'Education in Crisis', 'The Sky is Falling'. Where's your evidence, what are
> your constants? "Inferential comprehension" and basic literacy are not the
> same thing at all.


Yes, that's exactly how I wrote it, I guess it didn't quite
work, but can't you just hear Mike Wallace saying, "This is
yet ANOTHER CRISIS in America." Andy Rooney? 

Statistics, statistics, statistics, these are three kinds I
don't like. 


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