| "The individual has always had to struggle to keep | | | | much TV, you'll see that they're really not giving out |
| from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, | | | | much real news at all. There's a bottom line to |
| you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. | | | | consider and jeopardizing the corporation's profitability |
| But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of | | | | is not an option. |
| owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche | | | | We are a nation of television addicts. According to |
| There's always a frame around the things we hear, | | | | A.C. Neilsen Co (those are the ratings people), the |
| whether it be intentional or unintentional. Take the | | | | average American watches more than four hours of |
| media, for example. There are only five or six mega | | | | television per day. That's twenty-eight hours a week. |
| corporations that disseminate information to us about | | | | Two months out of each year. By the time you're |
| what is going on in the world, and really, if you watch | | | | 65, that's nine full years of television. |
