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1996-04-10
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It is not easy to convince people that if one
describes a process, one is not taking a stand,
pro or con. As a professor of literature, I am
entirely on the side of print. As a person living in
an electrical environment of information, I
naturally study the effects of this new form on all
of us. I do not endorse either electrical
technology, or its effects. TV, for example, is a far
more virulent pollutant than anything identified so
far by the anti-pollution ecologists. The polluting
powers of TV have nothing to do with the
programme content. The massive media effects of
a language, Russian, Chinese, English, German,
etc. on our entire ways of seeing and feeling are