Masterful...
- Marc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Boyd [SMTP:6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 1997 7:27 PM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: TV is Good
>
> Hi;
>
> > San Jose Mercury News; July 27, 1997; Page 2F.
> > "ABC's not too yellow to say TV is good" by Maureen Dowd
>
> Hey look fellow memesters: Television has finally realized the power
> of
> *self*propagation*. Using television to sell television.
>
> The most powerful force in the universe, self-replacation, finally
> used
> by television *programming* giants[1]. Be afraid.
>
> Dave Stephens wrote:
> > I have this sinking feeling that people will eat
> > this up. Pardon me while I vomit.
>
> I have the sinking feeling that what we are going to see is a vast
> polorization of society. The people who watch TV will watch more and
> more, and be convinced it's good. The people who don't watch TV will
> continue not to watch it, and be more and more convinced it's evil. I
> count myself lucky to be amoung the latter group.
>
> ERiC
>
> [1] Unless I've missed my mark, television *producing* companies have
> been using television to sell televisions for years... that's why
> every
> family who watchs TV owns three or four of them...