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Down! Down with the media gods! Down with the purveyors of profit at the expense of the spirit! Down with the entertainers and gamers of destruction. Down with the raucous, mesmerizing music of malevolence and its flashing scenes of immorality!
Down with the moguls and idols of mass media and their corrupted ethic of insidious influence on God's children!
Up with the family and with young minds made aware of the mass media's crafty techniques to torque and twist their emotions and the truth! Up with the power of the "off" button on the remote! Up with young adults who have the self-discipline and the divine insight to choose the right kind of entertainment, music and news reporting in the mass media!
Not long ago I found myself as an academically active dad addressing a senate committee on media literacy from the citizen legislature of the U.S. state of Oregon. A consortium of educators and parents sought to have the state board of education launch a program to educate young students about how television, music videos, computer games and movies inordinately influence and condition young minds.
Yes, my friends, it's time to debunk the "media gods" and understand how the mass media condition our minds to accept their wrong worldview and to act on their social and commercial messages. But please understand, not all of mass media is bad—just most of it.
The mass of media
That mass media is a massive part of your life in this era of "screenagers" has become all too clear in recent years. Before the average child reaches first grade in America , he or she will have watched more hours of television than a university student sits in class to graduate with a four-year bachelor's degree.
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