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Hello Everyone,
and welcome again
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to another 3ABN
presence Up Close
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We are coming to you
today from Calhoun Georgia
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It's beautiful
down here, isn't it?
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It certainly is!
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This is South! It's beautiful.
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from the Seventh
Day Adventist Church
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and we have a live audience,
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and we want to welcome
each and every one of you.
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Thank you for coming today!
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We have some tremendous topic
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I believe a very important
topic that were discussing today
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We sure do!
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Today we're going
to be talking about:
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" How to tame your TV "?
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For many years now
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television has been
changing the way we communicate
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the things we buy and
the things we believe.
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But here are
some statistics Danny
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that should make
your blood run cold
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According to the Ac
Nielsen Company, the
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average American watches
more than 4 hours of TV each day
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now that's 28 hours a week
or 2 months of non stop watching
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over the course of one year!
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The average person then,
would have spent the equivalent
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of 9 years of watching TV by
the time they're 65 years of age
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That's Terrible!
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I mean 9 years!
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That's unbelievable!
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You might be asking yourself:
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" What is it that
keeps us glued to the set? "
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Well, violence for one
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By the time the average American
child reaches 18 years of age
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They would have witnessed
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between 16.000 and
40.000 murderers on TV!
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Recently we sent our
cameras to a local mall
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to find out if these
statistics are really true.
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And they came back
with some disturbing answers
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Here is what the
people are saying
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and remember we have a
tendency to underestimate
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the time we spend
watching television
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Yes
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How much television
do you watch each day?
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I would say
probably about 2 hours
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About 3
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Oh, probably about 5 hours
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Maybe a couple of hours,
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maybe popping a
movie and that's about it.
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I would say maybe at least
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at least about 3 hours, a day.
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I probably don't even
watch 15 minutes a day
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I'll check the weather in
the morning and that's about it.
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I'm pretty much busy with work
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I go to the gym
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I watch about an
hour worth of TV a day
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I usually watch
about an hour of TV a day.
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probably 1 to 3 hours,
depending on the giving day
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I watch probably 1 hour
and a half, 2 hours every day
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Personally,
probably about 3 hours
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Almost all day actually
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cause she goes to
work and I am at home
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Do you have a
standard of what not to watch?
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we don't like
shows with, you know
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bad language and
things like that in it
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because we don't
use that in our home
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and we don't
want her to hear that
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We try to keep it clean,
and you know, family type shows
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No, not really
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I'll extend up
comedy when I have time
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I like to watch MTV,
Music Videos stuff like that
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sometimes movies
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With the kids I don't
really want them to watch like
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violence or like scary
movies or stuff like that
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so they can't watch that
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Not for the kids
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For myself I watch anything
that I think is suitable
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Action movies,
and stuff like that
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Personally, anything with anyone
gay I don't usually watch so..
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cause... I am not like that so..
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I am really
tired of violence and
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things that I don't feel
that are appropriate for my kids
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Not really, I'm pretty open
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Like I said I
pretty much limit just
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sports and the premium channels.
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We only watch certain programs
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like MTV, and certain things
that are usually for little kids
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I don't watch, no.
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I don't like a lot of violence
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and lot of sex
definitely I like? or not?
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No, I usually...
I watch everything
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No I really wouldn't say so
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I mean, if something catches
my eyes and if it's interesting
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I might as watch it for a little
bit see if it's interesting
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If not, flip it or whatever
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The channels that
we get are basically
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about any family channel
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I can't thing of any shows
off hand that we wouldn't watch
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We don't much care
for the MTV type shows
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or some of the
new comedy that's out.
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but basically we
just like watching
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a lot of the Discovery
channels History channels
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Those types of shows
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Ok, well...
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...very interesting to
hear the range of how many...
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and I think probably
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You said a while ago
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This actually show that we watch
more than what we think we do
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That's pretty scary!
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Of course we want
them to watch 3ABN
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That's right
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We'll be talking about
that, I am sure, in a little bit
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It's not that
television is wrong
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It's just the choices:
"How much time we're spending?"
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as the people said
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and what you're
putting into your mind
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Yeah, and what you're
putting into your mind!
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Well our guest
today is Jason Seiber
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He's a former TV news reporter
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who has spent a lot of time
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looking into the effects
of television on our lives.
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He's covered
stories as wide ranging as
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The death of Princess Diana
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and the average
boring City Council meeting
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I'm not sure somebody
would like that somewhere, but
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if you've been in city council
meetings some of them are
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...important Maybe necessary
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but he's here to share with us
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some of the basic
TV taming principles
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Please make him
welcome at this time
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Come on up, Jason
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How are you?
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Tell us a little
bit about yourself
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You worked in communications,
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Do you have a
degree in communications?
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Yes I do
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I have a lot of degrees
in a lot of different areas
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I have a degree in History
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but one of my degrees is a
Bachelor Degree in Journalism
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with emphases in broadcast
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Ok!
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and I have been to the Cemetery
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Seminary
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I believe that it is
possible to be born again!
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Well good, That is wonderful!
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I am glad we are learning that.
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Jason being in this field
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Why do you think people are
watching so much television?
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Watching television really
is a pretty basic instinct
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our lives are
stressful, we come home tired
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we're looking forward to
doing something different
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and television gives
us a chance to tune out
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and not only tune out
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but tune into something that
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you don't have to
think in order to enjoy
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It's fast
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It's easy
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It entertains
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It makes life seen
a little less pressing
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and it's probably
the most basic drug
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the average
American uses these days
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A Drug... Interesting
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What goes in into making this
powerful television programming?
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What goes into it is
a really basic process
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of manipulation
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the idea is that
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before we move your
mind into television
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we really want
to move your heart
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and even though you like to...
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Some of us have actually talked
about the indifferent news rooms
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How do we
actually reach the mind
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but there is not a lot
of time to reach your mind
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Just think
about how much time...
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News is my area of specialties
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so let's take a look
at that for just a moment
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News is sort of instant
entertainment in many ways
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So what we have is basically
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about 15 minutes of
news time, some of that
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has to go to sports some
of that has to go to weather
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so when you really break it down
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you have about 10
minutes to move the days news
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Now you have 5 reporters
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who have veined?
up for that 10 minutes
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so it's going to cut it down to
a maximum of 2 minutes of time
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for the average reporter
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and you're going to
be lucky if you get that
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a minute and a half is
considered generous in my field
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The process is the sound
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You want to start
off with the sound
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of the person that
is going to be talking
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and as soon as you do that
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you lay those sound bytes down
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You go underneath that
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and you lay down
the most important layer
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I should say the
second most important layer
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So you're going to lay
that layer down which is
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Your natural sound
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Your natural sound is
going to begin the major process
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of influencing the mind
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If I lay down natural sound
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that has an
homonymous character to it
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I am telling you that
I am expressing danger
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and doesn't
matter what you're seeing
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as long as you're
hearing that scary natural sound
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you are going to be moved by it.
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So whether is music or whether
is some sound of river water
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whatever it may be
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try to give that
natural sound in there
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The next layer is
going to be a layer of sight
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now, as much as possible
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I am going to try to
keep your talking head of?
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You will have some visual
contact that will set you up
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but as soon as we
can cut away from that
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and go and show you
something that corresponds
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to what that person
is saying, the better.
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Then again I'll have another
opportunity to manipulate
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So, if you are saying one thing
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so, for instance
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You have your average city? say:
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I think we are doing a
good job with homelessness
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but I cut away while
he is talking about that
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and I show a homeless guy
reaching in the garbage can
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What have I just said?
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You just destroyed everything.
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I called him a lair
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and nobody even
thinks about that
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that's why the city
council men are sometimes
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a little bit
hesitant to talk to us
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We have a love-hate relationship
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The final piece is
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something that was developed
by a guy named Eisenstein
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Sergey Eisenstein
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Great Russian filmmaker
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prior to him
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people used to show everything
that went into the film
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so when you were making film
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If you've showed a
man getting tied up
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You'd show the
entire man being tied up
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As in Edison great film:
"The Great Train Robbery"
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After a while they figured
out that was poor use of time
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So they begun to fragment time
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And that's really
where we've gone after that
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So you show a small
portion of the activity
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and you fragment it
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Now we've been becoming
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more and more
fragmented all the time Kay
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So if you watch
the extreme into that
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you'll be watching the
fragmented reality of..
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MTV!
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MTV would have probably
about half a second of time
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or less
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for you to digest the picture.
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Why do they do that?
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This is the nub of what
makes television powerful
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The reason they do
that is Number one:
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They keep you off
your feet mentally
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You are going to
be accepting thinks
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on a consumer basis
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as a person who
is being forced fed
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You don't have time
to think about the images
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You give up
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and you just start accepting
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that makes your
emotional response stronger
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that's going to
sell my advertisements
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Number two:
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It's because it makes you into
the final editor of the film
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So if you take for instance
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the famous scene from
Alfred Hitchcock's film:
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"Psycho" Where you
see a knife being raised
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You see a woman's terrified face
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You see a foot
slipping in the shower
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You see something red going down
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Not even red.
It's black and white
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but something
going down the drain
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and then you ask
people what they saw
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and they'll tell you
that they saw a murder!
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but the fact is:
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they didn't see any such thing
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The editor got inside your mind
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and you became the final editor
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and that's why the
images that you've seen
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in television stick with you
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People would describe
scenes from television
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and form the movies and from
the news that they never saw
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because clever
editors and clever directors
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made you make the final cut
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It is scary, isn't it?
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Well coming up
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We'll be
continuing to talk with Jason
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and get an inside look
at the television industry
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So stay with us!
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We'll be right back!
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Next week on Up Close
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We're going to be
talking about the fall out
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that comes from divorce
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I spent a lot of
time crying, of course
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and mourning
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the loss of not just a
marriage but my whole life
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You heard her say she
was angry with God for a time
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It was pretty
uncomfortable not knowing
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whether to get up and say hello
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So what do people do?
They say I am not going to go
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anywhere where God
would be pleased to see me
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Next week on Up Close
00:12:27.72\00:12:28.75
Recovering from
the Pain of Divorce
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Don't miss it!
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Welcome back to
3ABN presents Up Close
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Today we're
talking to Jason Seiber
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about taming your TV.
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How does television affect us?
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Is it possible to
use TV in a positive way?
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or do we have to
throw it out all together?
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Jason you are
here as the expert.
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????
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What about it?
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The simple thing it sounds like
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what you said while ago
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that we just needed to throw
all televisions out the window
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If so, nobody is watching today
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Right, right and we
can all go home right now
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It's been nice
seeing you all today
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and then you throw
away your televisions
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No it's not as easy as that
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Talking about
throwing away television
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is sometimes like talking about
throwing away a groceries cart
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and we want to think
about that a little bit later on
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as we get into the program today
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but think about this
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When you go let's say Mayers
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which is a major store
up in Michigan, where I live
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or maybe Pigley Wiggly
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Do they have that
down here in Michigan?
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Oh excuse me Georgia, Georgia?
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I am sorry
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Don't wait for me in
the folio? we can talk later
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When you go to these places
When you go to the supermarket
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You have your
supermarket grocery cart
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And as you drive, taken
that grocery down the isle?
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You have choices about
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what you're going to
put into the grocery card
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Are you going to put in Whiskey?
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Well maybe an alcoholic will
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Will you put cheap white bread?
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or you're going to
get valuable things,
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like whole wheat bread
and some sort of bottled water
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What are you going to
put into your groceries cart?
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The decision is
not the grocery's cart
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The decision is yours!
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Unfortunately for some
of TV programming these days
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You have items that want to jump
themselves in your grocery card
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So it gets a little
bit more challenging then
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It would be like
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having to go along
and you suddenly see that
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There's a whiskey
bottle in my grocery cart
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What are you
going to do about that?
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Well you don't
want to leave it there
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Here is the
analogy, how it breaks down
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When you are watching Television
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you can make some decisions
about what you are going to see
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Let's say that you
like to watch 16 minutes
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a great program
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where you're going to
learn a lot about our country
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but while you are
watching 16 minutes
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let's say some sort of
program comes on for a cop show
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that shows graphic violence.
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Well they're of course
going to show you the worst part
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of that graphic violence
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So what do you do then?
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Are you going to leave
that into your grocery cart?
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Are you going to
continuing watching?
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going down idols that throw?
that into your grocery cart
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Or you are going
to make a decision
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to switch over
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and watch something
that is safe all the time
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Like most of the time PBS's?
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or 3ABN for that matter.
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So as you're talking about this
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I am thinking about
what that person at the mall
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is saying about this
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So let's go back to the
mall where we ask people
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and talk about how they
thought about television
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What they thought it was
doing to affect their families
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and once again we got
some surprising answers!
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How do you think television is
affecting you and your family?
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Well, I think adults... can
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pretty well
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know how it affects them, and to
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know if anything is bad or
violent, they can handle it
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but young children
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I think it affects them, a lot
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We should watch, what they watch
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I could use a word
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Sitting in front of
it can make you dumb
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You just kind of
get zoned into the TV
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don't really get
out, you know, do stuff
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learn about things
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I mean there is stuff
on there for little kids
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that might learn
stuff here and there
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but I don't think
it is really that good
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Honestly.
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I don't know
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No, not a whole lot really
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I mean, I got a busy life so...
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I don't have to much time for it
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Well I think it
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keeps us from
probably doing more reading
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as far as other
items I don't know
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but it stops us
from doing them very much
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because we, when the weather is
nice or even when it is raining
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we go more for drives
just to get out of the house
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for some degree
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We don't use TV as a
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well this is what we
got to do, type thing.
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I don't think
very much, honestly
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TV is kind for entertainment
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I try to teach them things on
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Lessons of life that
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they're supposed to learn
from me or from their mother
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and I don't think
they're influenced by TV
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They know what's fiction
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It is not real
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I don't think very much
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I think that it
affects a lot because
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anything that she
watches she picks up on
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so if it's something positive,
she repeats it or acts it out
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so what ever she's going to
see that's what she?perturates?
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It just depends on
what we watch you know
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If is something bad or
something like that, you know
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seriously? Outgoing things
on violence, stuff like that
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We try not to watch
violent programs, for her
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so she grows up in a
nice, secure environment
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I think it affects our family
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because I think TV can
be an inspiration to people
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and also I think if
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there's certain
programs that they're watching
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It influences
their every day life
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Usually like I said,
I like funny things so
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I don't like to cop
other comedians material but
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I think the comedy
affects me in a positive way
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I really don't see no
kind of effect, you know
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I just enjoy watching it!
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For me I don't think so
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but about the kids, probably
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the kids from?Two years old?
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Some of the things
that are on TV concern me
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but we just try to watch to
make sure that whatever is on
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is something that
it's ok for her to watch
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or something that we feel
like is ok even for us as adults
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there is so much trash
on TV that we don't like
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I think it
affects us quite a bit
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that's why there are things that
I don't want my children to see
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and sometimes is hard
because my 19 year old
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would be watching a
program that I don't
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want my smaller kids to watch
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so we have some
debates over that type of thing
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so they have to
leave the room, or whatever
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unfortunately I feel
like Television in general
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and video games, really affected
our younger people as a whole
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A Lot!
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but you feel so small
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like: What can I possibly
do to get anything changed?"
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You know we would
like to convince ourselves
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that television does
not affect our children
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because there's so
many things that quote:
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We might like to watch"
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Even thought isn't good for us,
but we might like to watch it
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and the children are right there
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and they are watching
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It's really scary to
hear people talk about
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How it does
affect their children
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and influence their children
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I think it's even maybe worst
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when they think it doesn't
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Some people say:
00:19:50.57\00:19:52.42
"Ok, well it affects our kids"
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but the others say:
00:19:53.94\00:19:54.91
" It doesn't affect
my kids " I don't see.
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One lady even said, I don't see
that affects me, I just watch
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Let me tell you right now
00:20:01.08\00:20:02.05
That's not why
advertisers pay the big bucks
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is because they
don't think it affects you
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We think it does affect you
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Really if you spent
with anything like this
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It is going to
have an effect on you
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and some people have asked me:
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Am I being
manipulated by Television?
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That really is
the core issue here!
00:20:16.17\00:20:18.40
Am I being manipulated?
00:20:18.52\00:20:19.88
and the answer is:
00:20:19.98\00:20:21.45
Yeah, BIG TIME!
00:20:21.49\00:20:22.93
You are being manipulated!
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Well ok, How am I
being manipulated?
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Let's take a look at that
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Why do people go
to the television?
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Or to the video store
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or to the let's say the
theatre for that reason?
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It's because they
want to find something
00:20:36.84\00:20:38.60
that's going to make them laugh,
00:20:38.70\00:20:39.90
or something that is
going to make them cry
00:20:39.94\00:20:41.32
something that's going to
make them feel the drama of life
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What is all that?
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That's manipulation!
00:20:46.69\00:20:48.33
The people are
looking for manipulation
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they are wondering:
00:20:50.40\00:20:51.37
"How can I go and find a
way to manipulate my life...
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...so I don't feel the
way I am feeling right now?"
00:20:53.26\00:20:55.36
I want to feel differently
00:20:55.48\00:20:57.21
I want to be horrified,I want to
laugh, I want to feel dramatic
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I want to
experience something other
00:21:01.92\00:21:04.01
than what real life
has to offer right now
00:21:04.05\00:21:06.10
So they may have a need inside
00:21:06.48\00:21:09.13
and instead of finding the
Lord's help to fill that need
00:21:09.23\00:21:14.91
or a positive help
00:21:14.94\00:21:16.38
They're just wanting
to black out everything
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and just be entertained?
00:21:19.45\00:21:21.54
Well, yes in part.
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You know we have to first
resolve the question, though
00:21:24.46\00:21:26.82
Is manipulation
always a bad thing?
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Manipulation basically
means to move something
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When you go on
3ABN, let's be honest
00:21:32.87\00:21:34.71
You are trying to
manipulate somebody
00:21:34.74\00:21:36.55
You are trying
to manipulate them
00:21:36.58\00:21:37.75
into considering
Christ as their Savior
00:21:37.79\00:21:40.08
When you sing a song,
Does that touch peoples hearts?
00:21:40.37\00:21:42.06
I hope so
00:21:42.20\00:21:43.26
If you are touching their hearts
that's a form of manipulation
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Really the
question is not whether
00:21:46.17\00:21:48.20
manipulation is a
good thing or a bad thing
00:21:48.30\00:21:50.05
or being moved, is a
good thing or a bad thing
00:21:50.08\00:21:52.81
It's a question of
who am I being moved by?
00:21:52.91\00:21:55.09
And what am I being moved to?
00:21:55.29\00:21:57.33
If you are being moved by
Christ and the Holy Spirit,
00:21:57.37\00:22:00.56
That is the kind
of movement I want
00:22:00.59\00:22:01.85
It's the kind of
manipulation I want in my life
00:22:01.89\00:22:04.26
If I am being
moved by the other force
00:22:04.36\00:22:06.33
and first you have to
believe there's another force
00:22:06.37\00:22:08.33
If you believe there's a Satan
00:22:08.36\00:22:09.83
then you ought to believe
that he wants to manipulate you
00:22:09.87\00:22:11.67
If you are being
moved by government
00:22:11.77\00:22:13.35
You ought to ask
what kind of government
00:22:13.38\00:22:14.93
am I being manipulated by
00:22:14.96\00:22:16.36
You need to be
conscious of manipulation
00:22:16.40\00:22:18.84
Not indifferent to it!
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I am sure that you
have heard of these tests
00:22:20.03\00:22:22.77
and you may have heard it too.
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Years ago,
00:22:24.05\00:22:25.02
and I heard this
probably 15, 20 years ago,
00:22:25.26\00:22:29.05
that theatres tried this out,
00:22:29.08\00:22:31.72
while they were showing a movie
00:22:31.82\00:22:33.15
they would put the slidest
I mean like 1/100 of a second
00:22:33.27\00:22:37.85
So much that the
eye didn't even see it
00:22:37.95\00:22:40.11
Show some popcorn!
00:22:40.21\00:22:41.87
You are watching the movie
00:22:42.07\00:22:43.04
and you
subconsciously see the popcorn
00:22:43.05\00:22:45.61
but you don't even
know that you saw it.
00:22:45.64\00:22:47.42
They put in these quick little..
00:22:47.52\00:22:49.98
Did you read that?
00:22:50.08\00:22:51.05
They put in these quick little
and they would do it so often
00:22:51.06\00:22:53.66
and they tested on
theatres across country
00:22:53.96\00:22:56.93
and soon as they take a break
00:22:56.96\00:22:58.58
the people would go out
by the droves and eat popcorn
00:22:58.68\00:23:01.15
They didn't even
know they saw any popcorn
00:23:01.18\00:23:03.35
You can only see a
slight for a split second
00:23:03.39\00:23:05.53
as the movie was going
00:23:05.63\00:23:07.23
as you said while ago
they saw things they didn't
00:23:07.33\00:23:09.88
this time they didn't think they
saw popcorn but they really did
00:23:09.98\00:23:14.66
that it happened so
fast they blended in
00:23:14.86\00:23:17.24
Now they manipulated that,
and they started doing that
00:23:17.34\00:23:19.89
in theatres
countries, companies all over
00:23:19.94\00:23:23.13
And they did it with sodas,
with Pepsis, Cola's or whatever
00:23:23.23\00:23:26.74
So people... so
they sold a lot more!
00:23:27.19\00:23:29.06
So they
manipulating them for a reason
00:23:29.10\00:23:31.46
You know, what I want to know
00:23:31.56\00:23:33.12
is how do you
minimize this manipulation?
00:23:33.22\00:23:35.22
Good question!
00:23:35.43\00:23:36.59
The major
manipulation we experience
00:23:37.28\00:23:40.81
is not the subliminal kind that
you were talking about Danny
00:23:40.91\00:23:43.83
that's out there,
that takes a lot of work
00:23:43.86\00:23:45.47
and it probably has
a pretty minimal effect
00:23:45.57\00:23:47.84
from the most of
the studies I've read
00:23:47.94\00:23:49.52
I typically get
manipulated by popcorn,
00:23:49.62\00:23:51.76
by smelling
people eating popcorn
00:23:51.79\00:23:53.58
I don't know about
you, but that's me.
00:23:54.21\00:23:55.71
The major manipulation that
we're concerned about, I believe
00:23:55.81\00:23:59.42
as Christians, and as people
who watch what's out there
00:23:59.52\00:24:03.30
is the kind of manipulation
00:24:03.40\00:24:04.57
that's very
intentional and very obvious
00:24:04.61\00:24:06.69
and we need to learn how
to ask intelligent questions
00:24:07.17\00:24:09.14
The major answer to stopping
manipulation that you don't want
00:24:09.18\00:24:13.47
is to ask the
intelligent question:
00:24:13.51\00:24:15.62
"What are they not showing me?"
00:24:15.65\00:24:17.32
"What are they not saying?"
00:24:17.36\00:24:18.63
"What are they not
talking about right now"
00:24:18.88\00:24:21.42
"What are they showing
me? What are they saying?"
00:24:21.52\00:24:23.40
and how this all this come into
00:24:23.43\00:24:25.18
an expression of a
person's world view?
00:24:25.22\00:24:27.23
We journalists
are famous for saying:
00:24:27.26\00:24:28.97
We don't have a world
view, we're just trying to be
00:24:29.01\00:24:30.82
unbuyesteds reporters?
00:24:31.12\00:24:32.90
A ham, Boloney!
00:24:33.00\00:24:34.24
That is not real!
00:24:36.16\00:24:37.31
It is true. My
friend is a newspaper writer
00:24:37.35\00:24:39.13
and he says:
00:24:39.16\00:24:40.13
"You know we never let the truth
get in the way of a good story"
00:24:40.14\00:24:42.89
That's right!
00:24:42.92\00:24:43.89
Back in the days
when I was doing TV news
00:24:44.04\00:24:46.33
The old line was:
00:24:46.43\00:24:47.44
If it bleeds it leads
00:24:47.54\00:24:48.84
we do want to move
people, and we want them
00:24:48.90\00:24:51.02
to see our perspective
00:24:51.12\00:24:52.70
When I chose to
take a camera out there
00:24:52.74\00:24:55.11
and talk about the city
and how prosperous it is
00:24:55.15\00:24:58.36
It makes a big difference
whether I showed bumps
00:24:58.46\00:25:01.25
eating out of garbage cans
00:25:01.35\00:25:02.90
or I showed people building a
hire raised building down town
00:25:02.94\00:25:05.91
One shows optimism, the
other one shows pessimism
00:25:06.01\00:25:08.75
Every time we show
something, in media
00:25:08.78\00:25:11.50
we show it at the exclusion
of showing something else
00:25:11.53\00:25:13.74
We have narrow vision
00:25:13.77\00:25:14.88
What did I choose to show you
and why did I showed you that?
00:25:14.98\00:25:17.89
Unlike real life, where
you just happen to see things
00:25:17.99\00:25:20.14
Television is
sweated over scene by scene
00:25:20.34\00:25:23.37
In movies, frame by frame
00:25:23.40\00:25:25.75
Everything in that
frame is there for a reason
00:25:26.24\00:25:29.22
is there intentionally and you
ought to ask the question:"Why?"
00:25:29.32\00:25:32.75
You know, as a
mother I am thinking
00:25:32.90\00:25:34.81
How powerful now
is this television?
00:25:35.31\00:25:37.88
in terms of the
violence we see, etcera..
00:25:37.98\00:25:40.53
For people to actually follow it
for our children to actually do
00:25:40.56\00:25:44.23
what they may have seen
on the television screen
00:25:44.33\00:25:47.31
That's a good question!
00:25:47.92\00:25:49.05
How powerful is television..
00:25:49.09\00:25:51.50
in making us follow principles
that it's laying out for us
00:25:51.60\00:25:55.25
Well, again, the
answer is complex folks
00:25:55.35\00:25:57.79
It's a question of..
00:25:57.82\00:25:59.68
the magic bullet theory
00:25:59.72\00:26:01.55
Is this something
that can make me do
00:26:01.65\00:26:03.67
what I otherwise
would not have done?
00:26:03.71\00:26:05.70
And the answer
is: " It depends "
00:26:05.88\00:26:08.09
It really depends
00:26:08.12\00:26:09.49
There's a barrage of information
that hits us every day in media
00:26:09.53\00:26:13.29
and let's be honest
00:26:13.39\00:26:15.02
what typically happens as
result of watching to much media
00:26:15.06\00:26:18.15
is that we become
passive as opposed to active
00:26:18.25\00:26:21.39
people are more likely to get
up and run out and do something
00:26:21.49\00:26:24.41
like vote, or march in the
streets or pick it, or anything
00:26:24.45\00:26:27.34
They're more likely to say:
00:26:27.37\00:26:28.61
"Hmmm, I wonder what's on
the next channel "... Click
00:26:28.81\00:26:31.52
That's how people become,
who've watched television
00:26:31.56\00:26:34.24
So in a way they
become far more passive
00:26:34.28\00:26:37.49
Now you might say: "
What is the harm in that? "
00:26:37.59\00:26:38.78
Well it can be a lot of harm!
00:26:38.81\00:26:39.96
They've noticed that children
who've watched a lot of violence
00:26:40.52\00:26:43.04
and become passive to violence
00:26:43.07\00:26:44.49
aren't always
necessarily more likely to hit
00:26:44.53\00:26:46.87
Which is by the
way statistically true,
00:26:46.90\00:26:49.00
they are more likely to hit
00:26:49.10\00:26:50.36
but more than that,
00:26:50.39\00:26:51.36
They are more
likely to do nothing
00:26:51.37\00:26:52.72
when somebody
else is getting hit!
00:26:52.76\00:26:54.23
They're more likely to sit back
passively while somebody else
00:26:54.49\00:26:57.70
is getting clobbered!
00:26:57.73\00:26:59.39
and that can go
right on up into adult life
00:26:59.49\00:27:01.71
You can remember the
story of Kitty Genevies?
00:27:01.74\00:27:03.93
who has been killed in
the streets of New York
00:27:03.96\00:27:05.84
and dozens of people
literally watched her dying.
00:27:05.94\00:27:08.72
Didn't do a thing,
didn't call anybody!
00:27:08.82\00:27:10.71
That's the kind of
response, media breaths in us!
00:27:10.74\00:27:13.95
Yes it can hurt us
00:27:13.98\00:27:15.46
Not necessary by
sending us into action
00:27:15.50\00:27:18.08
but seeding us out of action!
00:27:18.18\00:27:20.68
Wow!
00:27:20.71\00:27:21.68
Well coming up next
00:27:21.69\00:27:23.33
We're going to be
talking with Dr. Bernell Baldwin
00:27:23.43\00:27:26.22
a brain scientist,
00:27:26.32\00:27:27.71
and he's going to be
talking about children
00:27:27.93\00:27:29.73
and how they are affected by TV
00:27:29.83\00:27:32.79
So stay with us and
we'll be right back!
00:27:33.08\00:27:35.62
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Welcome back to
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We'll be talking
about Taming your TV
00:28:28.24\00:28:31.48
How does Television affect us?
00:28:31.58\00:28:34.15
Is it possible to
use TV in a positive way?
00:28:34.18\00:28:37.43
Or do we have to just
throw it out all together
00:28:37.83\00:28:40.43
No no no, we don't have to
throw it out all together...
00:28:40.49\00:28:43.23
They're watching 3ABN right now!
00:28:43.43\00:28:45.94
I'm sure that is ok to watch
00:28:46.13\00:28:47.84
Jason's our
expert, he'll tell us that
00:28:47.90\00:28:50.14
and Dr. Baldwin
I hope pretty soon!
00:28:50.17\00:28:52.38
But when it comes to
children and television
00:28:53.02\00:28:55.62
most of us realize
that like it or not
00:28:56.09\00:28:58.96
the TV set has become the
main Babysitter in America!
00:28:59.00\00:29:03.18
And with it comes
also the problems!
00:29:04.03\00:29:06.70
So how much do they watch?
00:29:06.80\00:29:09.04
and once again here's what our
friends have to say about this
00:29:09.14\00:29:13.25
...in the mall
00:29:13.28\00:29:14.47
Do you have children at home?
00:29:14.57\00:29:16.18
and how many hours a day
do they watch television?
00:29:16.28\00:29:18.97
Yeah, they watch TV in
their room, they watch cartoons
00:29:19.50\00:29:22.39
Probably about 3 or 4 maybe
00:29:22.49\00:29:24.98
Probably.. aaa... 4 or 5
00:29:26.30\00:29:29.04
I don't know probably 5 'cause
she is sleeping most of the time
00:29:30.15\00:29:33.04
She probably watches about
the same amount on any given day
00:29:33.14\00:29:37.69
She's involved in sports a lot
00:29:37.75\00:29:39.40
So between going to school,
00:29:39.43\00:29:41.05
sports practice
and any other games
00:29:41.35\00:29:44.33
that she may be involved in
00:29:44.47\00:29:46.60
there'll be days that she
does not turn the television!
00:29:46.80\00:29:49.84
4 or 5 but they are
in and out of the rooms
00:29:51.23\00:29:53.97
and they don't really
concentrate on anything
00:29:54.07\00:29:56.83
Probably if they sat
down and watched a program
00:29:56.87\00:29:59.60
probably it would
be like 3 hours, maybe
00:29:59.63\00:30:01.15
Probably 4 or 5 hours every day
00:30:03.29\00:30:05.53
Do you supervise
what your children watch?
00:30:08.27\00:30:11.57
Oh definitely, yes!
00:30:13.19\00:30:15.24
Yes I do. I don't let them
watch things that are rated
00:30:15.38\00:30:19.86
not appropriate
for their age group
00:30:19.96\00:30:21.81
Typically not so much
00:30:22.88\00:30:24.92
I think their mother supervises
00:30:24.96\00:30:26.40
most of their
television activities
00:30:26.44\00:30:28.00
of course not
anything that is passed Pd 13?
00:30:28.98\00:30:32.43
Her mom, she gets the control
00:30:33.67\00:30:36.55
but sometimes I
help her, you know
00:30:37.25\00:30:39.51
Ahh,Yes I do
00:30:39.61\00:30:41.16
I usually try to get her
to watch like kids programs
00:30:41.26\00:30:44.26
but, you know,
usually is what we watch
00:30:44.93\00:30:46.78
Aaa, usually yes
00:30:46.88\00:30:48.14
It is mostly just
cartoons and stuff, though
00:30:48.18\00:30:50.27
How old are your children?
00:30:52.35\00:30:53.96
and Do they have a
television set in their room?
00:30:54.16\00:30:56.83
Yeah my daughter
she has 7 years old
00:30:57.75\00:31:00.21
yeah, she watches a large TV?
00:31:00.24\00:31:02.65
I have a 9, 11 and a 19 year old
00:31:02.69\00:31:05.07
They do but it's a VCR and they
can only watch tapes in there
00:31:05.17\00:31:10.03
Aaa 9, 5, 2
00:31:10.62\00:31:14.66
Yes
00:31:14.95\00:31:16.48
No. There is one in the
family area which is just
00:31:16.68\00:31:19.79
down the hall from her
room, that she has access to
00:31:19.83\00:31:22.91
I got one that is almost 14,
00:31:23.29\00:31:24.91
one that is almost
11 and a 2 year old
00:31:24.95\00:31:27.52
Yeah, they watch TV in
their rooms they watch cartoons
00:31:27.74\00:31:30.85
That's amazing isn't it?
00:31:33.39\00:31:34.47
Yes!
00:31:34.57\00:31:35.54
You know it's
interesting, because
00:31:35.55\00:31:36.97
whether not telling you in
that there as we were watching
00:31:37.00\00:31:40.79
that kids by the time they
have reached 18 years of age
00:31:40.83\00:31:44.59
not only seen 16000 murders
00:31:44.62\00:31:47.27
which apparently the
parents weren't watching out for
00:31:47.37\00:31:50.25
that's 16000 un cut murders
that your kids had to watch
00:31:50.29\00:31:53.14
but they're seen over
200.000 acts of violence
00:31:53.24\00:31:57.19
including rape and all
kinds of terrible things
00:31:57.29\00:31:59.61
happening out
there in the television
00:31:59.64\00:32:01.21
Did you know that most
kids, the majority of kids
00:32:01.25\00:32:03.34
are not watching the same thing
when mom and dad are in the room
00:32:03.44\00:32:06.12
that they are watching when
mom and dad are not in the room
00:32:06.15\00:32:08.74
That is from psychological
studies that had been conducted
00:32:08.84\00:32:12.26
on multiple occasions
00:32:12.29\00:32:13.91
and then when you
put the television set
00:32:14.01\00:32:15.51
in the child's room
00:32:15.54\00:32:16.97
there is no supervision!
00:32:17.03\00:32:18.57
There probably
is no supervision.
00:32:18.61\00:32:20.62
Let's just say this:
00:32:20.72\00:32:21.95
Putting a
television set in the kids room
00:32:21.99\00:32:23.96
is a dumb idea!
00:32:23.99\00:32:26.73
And people who do it are
really not using their heads
00:32:26.93\00:32:31.13
A recent report on Cnn says that
00:32:33.34\00:32:36.44
44% of the 3 year old watch
1 to 2 hours of TV each day
00:32:36.54\00:32:41.39
27% watch 3 to 4 hours and
21% watch over 5 hours each day!
00:32:41.49\00:32:50.33
and now
researchers have discovered
00:32:50.43\00:32:53.46
that every hour
preschoolers watch TV each day,
00:32:53.50\00:32:57.55
boost their chances of about 10%
00:32:57.65\00:33:01.04
of developing
attention deficit problems
00:33:01.08\00:33:04.74
sometime later in
life if not right then.
00:33:04.84\00:33:08.22
We asked the folks
at the mall about this
00:33:08.83\00:33:11.23
and here is what they said.
00:33:11.53\00:33:13.30
In recent news reports,
00:33:15.54\00:33:16.67
television has
been cited as causing
00:33:16.71\00:33:18.86
attention deficit disorder.
00:33:18.99\00:33:20.38
Are you concerned?
00:33:20.48\00:33:21.56
I've been watching
it, yes, I've seen it so
00:33:21.60\00:33:24.72
I don't know if
that, it is proven?
00:33:25.49\00:33:27.69
that kids are coming up with
attention deficit disorders?
00:33:27.73\00:33:31.91
because of TVs?
00:33:32.11\00:33:33.61
I know what they watch
00:33:36.98\00:33:38.78
because I keep track of that.
We don't watch much TV anyway so
00:33:38.86\00:33:42.69
No I actually haven't
paid attention to it so..
00:33:42.73\00:33:44.74
No
00:33:44.84\00:33:46.42
Yes I've seen it
on TV last night.
00:33:46.91\00:33:48.70
Well one I got
with attention deficit
00:33:49.61\00:33:52.27
and the other one watches as
much and it doesn't affect him.
00:33:52.31\00:33:55.88
No not at this point because I
don't have children at that age
00:33:56.53\00:34:00.46
and you know if I
had grand children
00:34:02.38\00:34:04.54
it would make a difference
00:34:04.57\00:34:05.92
because I believe there
is a lot of truth in that
00:34:06.20\00:34:08.54
you know flipping the channels,
00:34:09.11\00:34:10.93
running out when
the commercials are on
00:34:11.36\00:34:13.91
I think all of those things
affect, not being able to focus
00:34:13.95\00:34:18.95
on whatever they are doing
00:34:19.05\00:34:20.45
I saw that on the
news the other day
00:34:20.82\00:34:22.40
I really agree with that because
00:34:22.50\00:34:24.69
because children I don't
think they use their minds
00:34:24.73\00:34:27.64
and they play a lot and
figure things out on their on
00:34:27.74\00:34:30.98
when they're stuck just
watching TV all the time
00:34:31.01\00:34:34.29
I think they need to
learn things on their own
00:34:34.79\00:34:36.69
instead of just being
programmed with, you know
00:34:36.73\00:34:39.88
with what we
want them to see on TV
00:34:39.91\00:34:41.43
barely I've heard
limited information about that
00:34:41.83\00:34:47.82
however, since I am a
psychology major I've heard that
00:34:47.86\00:34:51.82
It doesn't necessarily...
It's a very small significance
00:34:52.72\00:34:58.76
correlation and
00:34:59.38\00:35:01.16
violent TV watching
and violent behavior
00:35:01.20\00:35:04.08
I find it concerning but
00:35:04.26\00:35:06.65
I think ADD and ADHD
00:35:06.68\00:35:09.00
have been blown a
little bit out proportion
00:35:09.04\00:35:11.93
Kids that don't have..
Have been diagnostic with it
00:35:13.31\00:35:15.78
in the recent years
00:35:15.87\00:35:17.47
but I think
that it is concerning
00:35:19.17\00:35:21.99
Not really because I
feel like is probably more
00:35:23.26\00:35:25.94
cartoon type
programs that would cause that
00:35:25.97\00:35:28.62
because everything is so quick
00:35:28.65\00:35:30.32
changes very fast
00:35:30.52\00:35:32.69
So my kids are allowed to
watch, like SESAMES STREET
00:35:33.37\00:35:36.97
and nogen? programs
00:35:37.00\00:35:38.86
things that are more
geared towards learning
00:35:38.90\00:35:41.65
and not the programs that were
cartoons and things like that
00:35:41.75\00:35:45.81
and that is what we're
doing with the grand baby too
00:35:45.85\00:35:47.84
Just trying to keep
her away from cartoons
00:35:47.94\00:35:50.54
and more on learning type things
00:35:50.64\00:35:52.16
I've heard that before
00:35:53.10\00:35:54.11
I don't know how factual that is
00:35:55.52\00:35:57.42
I've got to
take your word for it
00:35:57.45\00:35:59.32
Definitely if it was proven then
00:35:59.42\00:36:01.40
I would probably limit
their television even more
00:36:01.44\00:36:03.31
Amazing responses there!
00:36:05.95\00:36:08.13
Yes!
00:36:08.16\00:36:09.13
You know it sound like
00:36:09.14\00:36:10.11
if it's a programs
where children learn something
00:36:10.12\00:36:12.47
then we are not
going to worry about it
00:36:12.50\00:36:15.19
and yet some
programs like Sesames Street
00:36:15.22\00:36:17.88
is very
fragmented, like you mentioned
00:36:17.98\00:36:20.94
which is one of the
manipulation techniques
00:36:20.98\00:36:23.69
That's correct!
00:36:23.79\00:36:25.17
And I think it's interesting,
Danny to contrast that
00:36:25.21\00:36:28.03
with the programming that is
being done on 3ABN for children
00:36:28.43\00:36:32.48
Tony Tots, Kids Time.
00:36:32.58\00:36:34.96
Watch the segments!
00:36:34.99\00:36:37.30
They are not
fragmented segments!
00:36:37.34\00:36:39.94
and I think that is
really very important to realize
00:36:40.04\00:36:43.00
I think if they
have jumped out of this
00:36:43.03\00:36:44.89
to my mind was the idea that
00:36:44.99\00:36:46.82
everybody that we just saw
00:36:46.92\00:36:48.30
thought that it was somebody
else's kid that was being hurt
00:36:48.34\00:36:50.87
yes!
00:36:50.90\00:36:51.87
and the fact is that
00:36:51.88\00:36:52.85
We all have to take a
close look at ourselves!
00:36:52.86\00:36:54.51
I mean somebody's kid out there
00:36:54.89\00:36:56.55
is that average
kid who is seeing
00:36:56.58\00:36:58.21
200.000 acts of violence
including rape and murder
00:36:58.52\00:37:03.12
and 16.000 murders
by the time they're 18.
00:37:03.22\00:37:06.17
18.000 by the time they're
leaving elementary school
00:37:06.21\00:37:09.92
and that is
going to have an effect
00:37:10.12\00:37:12.02
wherever you meet it
is going to have an effect
00:37:12.12\00:37:14.14
kids are being
affected by what they see
00:37:14.24\00:37:16.99
the consumers now
what the people who sell
00:37:17.19\00:37:19.22
Are consumers items know it?
00:37:19.32\00:37:21.02
Time parents know it too
00:37:21.05\00:37:22.74
Parents do that because
00:37:22.78\00:37:24.40
I've noticed myself that
I've never seen a parent say:
00:37:24.44\00:37:28.11
"My kid is a bad
influence on other ones"
00:37:28.21\00:37:30.13
They always say:
00:37:30.16\00:37:31.13
"There friends had been
a bad influence on them"
00:37:31.29\00:37:33.64
They hang around bad friends!
00:37:33.74\00:37:35.63
Have you ever heard the one say:
My kid is messing up other kids?
00:37:35.67\00:37:39.25
You know we
always think it's ours...
00:37:39.45\00:37:41.09
I hate to interrupt
you... but we can let you go on
00:37:41.13\00:37:44.41
but you know what?
00:37:44.44\00:37:45.41
I've got a friend who's
a real expert in this area
00:37:45.42\00:37:49.06
Dr Baldwin is here with us
00:37:49.16\00:37:52.13
and I think it
might be really great
00:37:52.23\00:37:53.84
if we bring him on right now
00:37:53.87\00:37:56.04
and hear from the
expert explain to us
00:37:56.24\00:38:02.05
about all this research, and
ADD Attention Deficit Disorder
00:38:02.25\00:38:06.60
Dr. Baldwin is a brain scientist
00:38:06.70\00:38:10.55
Yes. Now I got a
helper here under this cap
00:38:10.75\00:38:13.83
a name of the human brain
00:38:14.03\00:38:15.86
Now this is a... professional
00:38:15.96\00:38:18.58
model is nothing style form
00:38:18.62\00:38:21.21
about this and if you bought
it you would for sure know it
00:38:21.31\00:38:24.13
Here comes the
brain out of the boney box
00:38:24.16\00:38:27.13
There it is, 3,
5 pounds currently?
00:38:27.95\00:38:30.77
In X? was bigger
00:38:31.71\00:38:33.19
3.5 pounds is 118 grams! Heavier
in man than it is in women
00:38:35.12\00:38:40.11
Now let's take a
look at it, inside
00:38:40.21\00:38:42.12
In front we have 2 eyes
00:38:42.22\00:38:44.15
and we have a
million living wires
00:38:44.19\00:38:46.84
from each eye
that go to the brain
00:38:46.87\00:38:49.49
This is why the eyes are
the major avenue to the soul
00:38:49.73\00:38:56.68
Inside the brain, here's the
way the brain is put together
00:38:57.39\00:39:01.43
and the information
comes to the back of the head
00:39:02.06\00:39:05.56
where you psychically see
00:39:05.66\00:39:07.41
17, 18, 19...
00:39:08.04\00:39:10.26
under my fingers... There!
00:39:10.30\00:39:12.69
That's where you psychically see
00:39:12.73\00:39:14.93
well you mentally
see when other wires
00:39:16.79\00:39:21.06
go from the back of the
head to the side of the head
00:39:21.10\00:39:24.58
...here!
00:39:24.78\00:39:25.81
That's where the
mind gets to work on it
00:39:27.08\00:39:29.49
Now the spiritual
faculties they're in front
00:39:29.59\00:39:31.93
and one of these called the will
00:39:32.23\00:39:36.22
is under my fingers... there!
00:39:36.26\00:39:39.13
Is proven by a
German neurologist
00:39:39.17\00:39:42.01
after the First World War
00:39:42.04\00:39:43.65
now I would like
to make a distinction
00:39:44.44\00:39:47.11
the media are
trying to manipulate
00:39:47.75\00:39:50.74
but your will is in
charge of your brain!
00:39:50.84\00:39:54.28
and so if you're in Nazareth
the environment can be terrible
00:39:55.21\00:40:00.71
but you can come out
of it because of the Will!
00:40:01.37\00:40:04.44
so the name of the
game is really persuasion!
00:40:06.11\00:40:09.49
not just manipulation
00:40:10.70\00:40:12.68
so we can choose to see 3ABN
00:40:12.78\00:40:15.72
Instead of the Junk
Company Incorporated
00:40:15.82\00:40:19.20
this can really
make a difference
00:40:20.16\00:40:22.21
big difference indeed!
00:40:22.24\00:40:23.81
You mentioned the young brain
00:40:23.91\00:40:25.78
here's some news about that
00:40:27.28\00:40:29.17
the basic circuits
in the brain are jelled
00:40:29.81\00:40:33.72
the circuit is
an electronic wheel
00:40:33.92\00:40:36.71
this is gelled when
the child is 3 years of age
00:40:36.81\00:40:41.22
so if the child instead
of being on mother's lap
00:40:42.50\00:40:46.84
in daddies tool box
00:40:47.15\00:40:49.34
in mother's kitchen
00:40:49.54\00:40:51.36
in the sand box
making things doing things
00:40:51.46\00:40:55.02
exploring the real world
00:40:55.05\00:40:57.51
see, that has touch, sound,
sight, feeling, experience
00:40:58.98\00:41:05.35
they become passive like you say
00:41:05.45\00:41:07.39
back on you 100%
00:41:07.59\00:41:08.97
so instead...
00:41:09.01\00:41:10.36
Praise the Lord!
00:41:10.46\00:41:11.43
Instead of
developing a passive brain
00:41:12.27\00:41:15.79
what we want to do
is to grow up curiosity
00:41:15.83\00:41:18.81
person hood
00:41:20.07\00:41:21.43
We want them to
decide and to do things
00:41:21.53\00:41:25.02
and to grew up
naturally instead of
00:41:25.05\00:41:27.47
becoming a... funnel?
00:41:27.57\00:41:29.71
We would like them to be
more filtered? in their capacity
00:41:30.59\00:41:34.33
and more choosing
00:41:34.36\00:41:35.94
Ramon Cahall a famous
Spanish brain scientist showed
00:41:36.14\00:41:39.76
that the wires that go
from the brain are to the retina
00:41:39.86\00:41:43.59
so people see
what they want to see
00:41:43.69\00:41:46.28
ask the neighbors
00:41:46.89\00:41:48.27
People hear what
they want to hear
00:41:48.31\00:41:50.91
ask your enemies
00:41:51.88\00:41:53.07
Then how this really affects the
child sitting there and watching
00:41:53.43\00:41:57.39
How would a child be different
who watched a lot of television
00:41:57.49\00:42:01.38
versus a child who was
able to touch things and...
00:42:01.78\00:42:06.01
What would the difference be?
00:42:06.58\00:42:08.11
DRAMATIC!
00:42:08.31\00:42:10.01
The frontal eye
fields are right there,
00:42:10.11\00:42:12.42
under my finger, in the circle
00:42:12.49\00:42:14.50
in health, the frontal
eye fields, guide the eye.
00:42:14.61\00:42:21.18
They shape the visual experience
00:42:21.95\00:42:25.06
but in television
00:42:25.09\00:42:26.50
what the establishment wants
00:42:26.60\00:42:29.32
is for witch of our
brains to become a funnel?
00:42:29.36\00:42:32.17
They pour the
commercials in the top
00:42:32.27\00:42:34.26
and the money
comes out of the bottom
00:42:34.36\00:42:36.27
This is what they're after
00:42:37.60\00:42:39.51
And it's working!
00:42:40.82\00:42:41.81
YES!
00:42:41.85\00:42:42.82
What do they pay for a half
of 30 seconds to super bowl?
00:42:42.83\00:42:46.90
I don't know but
I know what they saw
00:42:47.30\00:42:48.90
in those 30
seconds in the Super bowl
00:42:48.94\00:42:50.51
Like a few million or
something like that, dollars
00:42:50.56\00:42:52.31
just for 30 seconds
00:42:52.41\00:42:53.62
Yes, but now here's some
ways that I am sure people are
00:42:53.66\00:42:58.39
on to it when you put
the Bible on television
00:42:58.92\00:43:01.72
and people are reading the text
00:43:01.82\00:43:03.96
You know
00:43:04.06\00:43:05.04
For God so loved the World
00:43:05.14\00:43:08.17
This is entirely different
than the frontal? business
00:43:08.91\00:43:11.70
because you're reading
00:43:12.36\00:43:13.57
and you're hearing
00:43:14.04\00:43:15.56
and if we encourage
people to read the Bible
00:43:15.66\00:43:18.13
when we're speaking to them and
when we are explaining to them
00:43:18.17\00:43:21.21
this will also help
00:43:21.24\00:43:22.48
another thing
that helps is this:
00:43:22.58\00:43:24.65
Balance, moderation and
may I use the term horse sense?
00:43:24.75\00:43:32.04
you know...
00:43:33.10\00:43:34.07
Common horse sense
00:43:34.08\00:43:35.07
You've been
telling about children
00:43:35.11\00:43:36.58
but what's the difference
between what children watch
00:43:36.68\00:43:38.88
and what parents should watch?
00:43:38.91\00:43:40.60
...of the effect
that it has on them
00:43:41.44\00:43:43.00
Oh in the brain?
It is very simple...
00:43:43.23\00:43:44.77
The brain is plastic
00:43:44.87\00:43:46.45
and a lady brain
scientist Buckley Diamond
00:43:46.55\00:43:48.94
Dr Diamond
showed that you can grow
00:43:49.24\00:43:51.51
better, longer dendrites
until you are 92 years of age!
00:43:51.61\00:43:55.80
So the brain is always plastic
00:43:57.39\00:43:59.87
.. Is always plastic
and it could be modified
00:44:00.93\00:44:03.74
but the most plasticity
is before 3 years of age
00:44:03.78\00:44:07.34
so to dump Babylon into
the brain before 3 years of age
00:44:08.28\00:44:13.65
is a Catastrophe!
00:44:13.75\00:44:15.31
In plain English!
00:44:15.60\00:44:16.88
Ok, Thank You!
00:44:17.29\00:44:18.26
Wow, in just a moment
we're going to find out
00:44:18.28\00:44:20.85
what our live
audience thinks about this
00:44:21.40\00:44:25.07
and we're going to
take their questions so...
00:44:25.17\00:44:27.49
Stay with us
we'll be right back!
00:44:27.69\00:44:30.56
Next Week on Up Close
00:44:37.87\00:44:39.57
We're going to be
talking about the fall out
00:44:39.61\00:44:42.03
that comes from divorce
00:44:42.06\00:44:43.93
I spent a lot of
time crying, of course
00:44:44.64\00:44:47.73
and mourning
00:44:49.18\00:44:50.15
the loss of not just a
marriage but my whole life
00:44:50.18\00:44:53.98
You heard her say she
was angry with God for a time
00:44:54.36\00:44:57.85
It was pretty
uncomfortable not knowing
00:44:58.21\00:44:59.67
whether to get up and say hello
00:44:59.70\00:45:01.63
So what do people do?
They say I am not going to go
00:45:02.32\00:45:05.45
anywhere where God
would be pleased to see me
00:45:06.21\00:45:08.95
Next week on Up Close
00:45:09.62\00:45:11.04
Recovering from
the Pain of Divorce
00:45:11.14\00:45:13.46
Don't miss it!
00:45:13.49\00:45:14.46
Welcome back to
3ABN presents Up Close
00:45:28.15\00:45:31.20
Our Topic today
is taming your TV!
00:45:31.24\00:45:34.60
We've heard about how
powerful television is
00:45:34.70\00:45:38.00
...how many hours the
average viewer is watching
00:45:38.10\00:45:41.20
and even about news studies
on the relationship between
00:45:41.30\00:45:44.93
TV and attention
Deficit Disorders
00:45:44.96\00:45:47.70
in our children
and in our youth!
00:45:47.80\00:45:50.46
but right now we want
to open up the program
00:45:50.56\00:45:53.82
for questions from pure audience
00:45:53.92\00:45:55.54
I think we have some good ones!
00:45:55.64\00:45:57.29
We do we have a
young lady out here
00:45:57.33\00:45:58.92
Can you give us your name honey?
00:45:58.96\00:46:00.52
Hi my name is Chilean Nolan...
00:46:01.17\00:46:02.95
and my question is:
00:46:02.98\00:46:04.75
Do you consider TV a peer
00:46:05.88\00:46:08.10
pressure? Do we consider
TV to be a Peer pressure?
00:46:09.11\00:46:11.67
You know that is a good question
00:46:11.77\00:46:13.67
and peer pressure is a
good name for television
00:46:13.77\00:46:17.51
television doesn't
necessarily forces to do things
00:46:17.54\00:46:21.25
but it suggests things just like
peer pressure does in school
00:46:21.28\00:46:24.87
and at some times it helps us to
reinforce ideas that we may have
00:46:24.90\00:46:29.99
and so for instance:
00:46:30.09\00:46:31.86
It was media that
really helped Hitler
00:46:31.96\00:46:34.84
to get the German people
to go and attack the Jews
00:46:34.94\00:46:38.49
All right?
00:46:38.69\00:46:39.66
If you ever studied that
in school you'll learn that
00:46:39.67\00:46:42.20
So did that mean
that he made them do it?
00:46:42.30\00:46:45.22
Not really folks he
didn't make them do it
00:46:45.42\00:46:47.87
anti-Semitism went
way back in German history
00:46:47.90\00:46:50.32
but he suggested ways to do it
00:46:50.35\00:46:52.29
and he intensified the
anti-Semitic feelings so...
00:46:52.39\00:46:56.28
Yes, I think peer pressure
00:46:56.31\00:46:57.78
is an excellent choice
of words for television!
00:46:57.82\00:47:00.38
Okay!
00:47:01.16\00:47:02.16
All right, well we
have another question
00:47:02.20\00:47:04.55
and give us your name
and where are you from
00:47:04.58\00:47:06.90
My name is Zeola Austin?
and I am from Huntsville Alabama
00:47:07.03\00:47:10.45
All right we're happy that you
are here, what is your question?
00:47:10.81\00:47:13.55
retired teacher?has taught
a number of these ADD children
00:47:13.58\00:47:16.27
since we have so many of
them in the classroom now
00:47:16.37\00:47:20.26
my question is:
00:47:20.36\00:47:21.91
Should not our
classrooms be structured to
00:47:22.01\00:47:25.92
include them, in our
classroom, in our studies
00:47:25.96\00:47:29.84
rather then holding them in
a classroom from 2 to 3 hours
00:47:29.94\00:47:33.92
at a time and trying
to make them sit still?
00:47:34.02\00:47:37.39
I think I am going to refer?
that one to you Dr Baldwin
00:47:38.25\00:47:40.52
About Attention Deficit Disorder
00:47:41.29\00:47:43.87
One: There are many causes
00:47:44.27\00:47:46.76
Two: We only know a few of them.
00:47:47.19\00:47:49.92
Television make a
contribution of this because
00:47:50.99\00:47:54.74
of short-circuiting
normal development
00:47:54.77\00:47:56.86
but to hang all the
00:47:56.96\00:47:59.07
Attention Deficit problems
in America on Television
00:47:59.11\00:48:02.25
would be a mistake.
00:48:02.46\00:48:04.79
Certainly. There's
a lot of epigenetic
00:48:05.59\00:48:08.42
There's a lot of
genetics involved
00:48:08.52\00:48:10.46
There's a lot of
mental issues involved
00:48:10.56\00:48:13.32
There's a lot of chemical
and electronic issues involved
00:48:13.42\00:48:16.60
so we shouldn't
scapegoat the problem.
00:48:16.80\00:48:19.93
None the less, if,
particularly boys, and girls
00:48:20.03\00:48:24.55
if they have this problem...
00:48:24.59\00:48:26.46
Who else is there?
00:48:26.56\00:48:27.65
What?
00:48:27.68\00:48:28.65
Boys and girls... Excuse me.
00:48:28.66\00:48:31.43
Men and Women!
00:48:31.53\00:48:32.77
Thank you Kay!
00:48:33.07\00:48:34.97
Because adults have it now, too!
00:48:35.88\00:48:38.12
Oh, all right
I'm in it. I got it
00:48:38.22\00:48:39.99
What they need is action to put
the brain back together again
00:48:40.09\00:48:45.04
You see?
00:48:46.05\00:48:47.02
Gardening, building things,
making things, doing things,
00:48:47.91\00:48:52.87
going places,
instead of sitting and having
00:48:52.97\00:48:55.45
cellulose packed
into their brains!
00:48:55.55\00:48:58.63
So active classrooms,
a lot of gardening...
00:48:59.27\00:49:02.64
Out of the classroom!
00:49:02.74\00:49:05.34
Yes get out and do something
use your hands and all that,
00:49:05.64\00:49:08.61
she is saying.
00:49:08.98\00:49:09.95
Don't count Washington and
big bucks to solve this problem
00:49:09.96\00:49:13.33
Like it!
00:49:13.43\00:49:14.40
All right We
have another question.
00:49:14.41\00:49:16.64
Give us your name please
00:49:16.74\00:49:17.76
Malcolm mcgreles? from
Road mountain Tennessee
00:49:17.86\00:49:20.34
Good, we're glad you're here!
00:49:20.64\00:49:21.94
One of the annoyances
on a personal level for me
00:49:23.46\00:49:27.26
is background music
that is being played
00:49:27.36\00:49:30.67
during, like commercials
00:49:30.70\00:49:32.39
and other activities
in radio and television,
00:49:32.43\00:49:35.03
more probably on
radio then television.
00:49:35.14\00:49:37.67
I just wondered
why they do this?
00:49:37.87\00:49:41.35
That it a good question!
00:49:41.76\00:49:42.74
The reason we do that is because
00:49:42.84\00:49:44.16
we want to suggest to you that
you feel good about our product
00:49:44.26\00:49:47.62
that we're moving, so
when we have Kodak film
00:49:47.65\00:49:50.42
We're not going to
say: Isn't Kodak film nice?
00:49:50.46\00:49:53.15
doesn't it make a lovely picture
with a high quality shoot?
00:49:53.25\00:49:56.69
We want you to say:
00:49:56.72\00:49:57.92
When I use Kodak, it
reminds me of our family reunion
00:49:58.02\00:50:02.22
eating watermelon and
those nice kids down the block
00:50:02.32\00:50:05.33
we used to ride bikes with.
00:50:05.36\00:50:06.60
and they can do that
00:50:07.56\00:50:08.53
by suggesting music
that takes you there!
00:50:08.54\00:50:10.21
Okay so they naturally
once again manipulation to
00:50:10.65\00:50:14.37
make you feel good
about their product
00:50:14.47\00:50:17.76
Danny you have a much better
chance of moving the product
00:50:17.86\00:50:20.39
If a person feels good
when they're seeing the product
00:50:20.49\00:50:23.27
They wont even remember
what the product has going for
00:50:23.37\00:50:26.44
on an intellectual basis but
00:50:26.54\00:50:27.85
they'll now that when they
saw that product on television
00:50:27.89\00:50:30.59
they felt good.
00:50:30.69\00:50:31.66
So when you see the logo name
00:50:31.67\00:50:33.27
you have this wave of
feeling that comes over you.
00:50:33.47\00:50:35.95
All right. Good
00:50:36.05\00:50:37.02
All right, Thank You.
00:50:37.12\00:50:38.09
Next Question.
00:50:38.16\00:50:39.58
Yes, my name is Vanessa Harvey
00:50:39.68\00:50:41.87
and How powerful is the media?
00:50:41.90\00:50:44.06
Can it have effects on us
that we would otherwise do?
00:50:44.16\00:50:46.91
Make us do other things?
00:50:46.94\00:50:48.49
I like that question, well,
00:50:49.20\00:50:50.44
it makes you do things that you
wouldn't have done otherwise?
00:50:51.09\00:50:54.46
Well sometimes media is
00:50:54.57\00:50:56.95
projected to be the
sort of magic bullet
00:50:56.99\00:51:01.50
that when they shoot it off,
00:51:01.62\00:51:02.59
you'll do anything
they suggest to you
00:51:02.60\00:51:04.62
But they found
during World War 2
00:51:05.01\00:51:06.66
that it was impossible
to teach people to do things
00:51:06.76\00:51:09.44
they were not opened
at least a little bit.
00:51:09.47\00:51:11.46
For instance, you
can't make Jews hate Jews.
00:51:11.76\00:51:14.70
You can make Germans hate Jews
00:51:14.90\00:51:16.64
if they have some
disposition to do that,
00:51:16.68\00:51:18.85
but if a person has any openness
suggestion does play a huge part
00:51:19.05\00:51:23.53
and so does the reinforcement
that comes after that suggestion
00:51:23.83\00:51:28.36
Ok, Dr Baldwin Do
you any comments to that
00:51:30.75\00:51:32.69
about the manipulation, or about
the question she just asked?
00:51:32.73\00:51:37.31
Yes, Next!
00:51:37.41\00:51:38.96
That means You
covered that well, Jason!
00:51:41.62\00:51:44.03
That's what that means!
00:51:44.06\00:51:45.25
Ok, all right we
have a young man here
00:51:45.75\00:51:47.68
What's your name and
where are you from son?
00:51:47.78\00:51:48.94
I'm James Garner and
I'm from Kensal Georgia
00:51:49.68\00:51:52.36
and I just want to know
some good ways of choosing
00:51:52.46\00:51:55.20
my programs that I watch on TV?
00:51:55.23\00:51:56.58
A good question!
00:51:56.98\00:51:58.00
That's one I was hoping
somebody would ask, here
00:51:58.18\00:52:00.08
What you don't want to do
00:52:00.28\00:52:01.70
let's start with that!
00:52:01.80\00:52:02.77
Don't make your decision
00:52:02.78\00:52:04.02
while you are
flipping through the channels!
00:52:04.05\00:52:05.59
Don't make your decision
before you've taken time
00:52:05.66\00:52:07.57
to think about your decision.
00:52:07.60\00:52:08.86
Study the program!
00:52:09.06\00:52:10.33
Before you let your
kids watch the program
00:52:10.43\00:52:12.20
Don't take TV guides
word for it Watch it with them
00:52:12.30\00:52:14.90
before you let them sit
there and watch programs
00:52:14.93\00:52:17.50
without your
attendance in the future.
00:52:17.53\00:52:19.18
Another thing:
00:52:19.28\00:52:20.25
Write down your values!
00:52:20.26\00:52:21.54
Now I'll tell you
what my values are
00:52:21.64\00:52:22.85
My values can be
found in the Word Of God
00:52:22.95\00:52:24.42
So I take the Big Ten
right, The Ten Commandments
00:52:24.46\00:52:26.79
and think about
00:52:26.89\00:52:28.21
Does this Television program
00:52:28.31\00:52:30.65
extend my values to
my children or to my life
00:52:30.75\00:52:33.98
if it's not I
don't think I'd watch it.
00:52:34.08\00:52:35.75
Makes sure that the
values you believe in
00:52:35.85\00:52:38.47
are being promoted by
the television program
00:52:38.57\00:52:40.84
that you're choosing to watch.
00:52:40.87\00:52:42.03
Another thing:
00:52:42.13\00:52:43.10
Make sure that you ask questions
00:52:43.11\00:52:44.85
now you may be saying:
00:52:44.89\00:52:45.86
"I am too tired to ask questions
when I am watching Television"
00:52:45.94\00:52:49.55
Then don't watch TV!
00:52:49.65\00:52:51.21
It's a big THA, moment!
00:52:51.31\00:52:52.92
If you don't
want to be manipulated
00:52:53.02\00:52:55.63
Then don't watch
it when you are tired!
00:52:55.73\00:52:57.59
because when you are tired
you are going to be manipulated
00:52:57.69\00:52:59.71
a lot more easily
than if you are awake
00:52:59.74\00:53:01.89
and alert and asking questions.
00:53:01.92\00:53:03.49
Don't watch
television programs that
00:53:03.53\00:53:05.47
try to fragment reality so
much, that even if you are awake
00:53:05.51\00:53:09.62
and conscious there is no way to
keeping pace with the image rate
00:53:09.66\00:53:12.66
and the suggestion
00:53:12.76\00:53:13.73
to be able to understand
that imagery and suggestion.
00:53:15.39\00:53:18.11
and finally:
00:53:18.63\00:53:19.60
I would say:
00:53:19.61\00:53:20.58
Don't assume that the television
program you're watching
00:53:20.59\00:53:24.12
has no agenda.
00:53:24.16\00:53:25.46
It has an agenda!
00:53:25.56\00:53:26.96
Ask yourself
whether if it's your agenda,
00:53:27.06\00:53:29.39
whether it matches
up with Gods agenda
00:53:29.43\00:53:31.73
if you're a Christian.
00:53:31.76\00:53:32.73
If it doesn't, shove it!
00:53:32.74\00:53:34.55
Well we only have
a couple minutes left
00:53:36.71\00:53:38.30
and what we like to do
is maybe ask you each for?
00:53:38.34\00:53:41.54
so some final thoughts
00:53:41.64\00:53:42.82
on this program today
Jason let's start with you.
00:53:42.92\00:53:45.41
One of the things we
haven't talked about is
00:53:45.51\00:53:47.33
the good that Television can do
00:53:47.37\00:53:49.11
One of the good things
that Television can do is
00:53:49.21\00:53:51.17
that it can present to
you in just a few moments
00:53:51.21\00:53:53.56
with a wide variety
of educational topics
00:53:53.66\00:53:57.26
In 2 minutes of television
00:53:57.46\00:53:58.81
you can learn more
than some people can learn
00:53:58.85\00:54:00.50
in 20 years of reading books,
00:54:00.60\00:54:02.52
and so Television
is a powerful medium
00:54:02.72\00:54:05.40
if used
correctly, it should be used!
00:54:05.50\00:54:08.43
Another thing that we ought
to notice about Television is
00:54:08.53\00:54:11.43
is that When you are watching TV
00:54:11.53\00:54:14.37
is important to watch things
00:54:14.40\00:54:16.87
that vary with your world view.
00:54:16.90\00:54:19.34
so if you are a democrat
00:54:19.86\00:54:20.91
watch things that are put
out by republicans as well.
00:54:21.01\00:54:23.37
If you are a republican
00:54:23.40\00:54:24.37
watch things that
are put out by democrats
00:54:24.38\00:54:26.29
If you are an American
00:54:26.39\00:54:27.46
try to listen to
the BBC once in a while
00:54:27.50\00:54:29.69
If you are listening to the
BBC try to see what's out here.
00:54:29.73\00:54:32.45
Vary your media input so that
00:54:32.55\00:54:34.74
one channel, one set of minds
00:54:34.84\00:54:36.70
aren't making all
the suggestions to you
00:54:36.74\00:54:38.85
finally I want to say
something one last little piece?
00:54:38.89\00:54:41.99
Look, not
everything in the Bible
00:54:42.33\00:54:44.37
is appropriate for
your child to read.
00:54:44.41\00:54:46.37
I would suggest not going to
the Book of Judges right away.
00:54:46.47\00:54:49.28
There are some
stories in there that
00:54:49.31\00:54:50.51
if they were rated in
television would be NC 17
00:54:50.55\00:54:53.24
and they're described in
a way that you don't want
00:54:53.34\00:54:55.56
your child to hear.
00:54:55.59\00:54:56.56
Time and place
needs to come into place
00:54:56.57\00:54:58.23
There are things
that are rated are!?
00:54:58.27\00:55:00.36
out there in Television
land, or in the movies
00:55:00.40\00:55:02.95
this is Schindler's List
00:55:02.98\00:55:04.20
witch would probably would
be helpful for a collage student
00:55:04.30\00:55:07.38
trying to learn
about the Holocaust
00:55:07.48\00:55:09.10
and to teach people not to
repeat the sins of the Holocaust
00:55:09.14\00:55:13.07
they are not appropriate
for kindergartners to see
00:55:13.47\00:55:16.74
so make sure that you
take into consideration
00:55:16.84\00:55:19.74
Time, Place, and
Audience Choose Wisely!
00:55:19.84\00:55:23.18
Ok. All right. Dr. Baldwin?
00:55:23.28\00:55:24.71
Yes.
00:55:25.35\00:55:26.32
I like his point of
the ten big pillars?
00:55:27.66\00:55:32.00
The TEN COMMANDMENTS
00:55:32.10\00:55:33.88
Beautiful!
00:55:34.00\00:55:34.97
Last forever!
00:55:35.05\00:55:36.77
Another thing
along the same line, is:
00:55:37.06\00:55:39.57
Is Philippians 4-8
00:55:39.61\00:55:41.06
What so ever things
are true, and honest.
00:55:41.15\00:55:44.28
The things that
are beautiful and noble
00:55:44.93\00:55:47.27
enduring and will put
excellence into your family
00:55:47.31\00:55:51.58
instead of: Babylon!
00:55:51.78\00:55:54.51
Good idea!
00:55:55.01\00:55:56.15
Ok. Very good
00:55:56.19\00:55:57.30
We want to thank
both of you for being here
00:55:57.40\00:55:59.94
Jason Seiber
00:56:00.27\00:56:01.40
Dr. Bernell Baldwin
00:56:01.44\00:56:03.47
and we'll be
back in just a moment
00:56:03.77\00:56:06.31
with some closing thoughts.
00:56:06.34\00:56:07.65
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Welcome back!
00:57:00.42\00:57:01.39
We just wanted to
give a final thought,
00:57:01.40\00:57:04.12
a closing thought I believe
00:57:04.22\00:57:05.32
and I think Kay, you're a doctor
00:57:05.42\00:57:07.87
and your specialty is
child development, right?
00:57:07.91\00:57:12.05
What do you think about
00:57:12.38\00:57:13.35
what you've seen
here today and heard?
00:57:13.36\00:57:15.34
I'm excited
about what I've heard!
00:57:15.98\00:57:17.92
because we didn't
just condemned the media
00:57:18.02\00:57:21.47
which so often happens
00:57:21.57\00:57:23.01
but we said let's
take a really good look
00:57:23.05\00:57:25.95
at what our
children are watching
00:57:25.98\00:57:27.31
at what we're watching
00:57:27.34\00:57:28.45
because our
children will basically watch
00:57:28.49\00:57:30.61
what we're watching!
00:57:30.77\00:57:32.12
And I think when we
take that choice, that will
00:57:32.26\00:57:36.28
the Doctor Baldwin talked about
00:57:36.38\00:57:38.54
and make a good choice,
00:57:38.64\00:57:40.39
we can be better
people because of it!
00:57:40.49\00:57:44.23
So what we want to do
is prepare our children
00:57:44.43\00:57:46.97
not only our children
but ourselves for eternity
00:57:47.07\00:57:49.68
by taking in the
good things, there is
00:57:49.78\00:57:51.61
pure and lovely and truth
00:57:51.64\00:57:52.94
and those are
spiritual things of course!
00:57:52.98\00:57:55.21
Well our time is
all gone for today
00:57:55.51\00:57:57.13
and until we see you next time
00:57:57.16\00:57:58.51
May the Lord richly Bless you,
00:57:58.61\00:57:59.87
abundantly more
then you could ever ask,
00:57:59.91\00:58:02.01
or think!
00:58:02.04\00:58:04.25