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Supporters Plan To Turn Off TV For One Week

Published: Mon 22 Apr 2002 09:54 AM
White Dot* Invades New Zealand As Supporters Plan To Turn Off TV For One Week
International TV Turnoff Week April 22 - 28
Can you do without it for a week? Do the White Dot* thing - turn it off.
International TV Turnoff week happens all next week, right round the globe. Its an easy way to give a message to the self-important networks, and you’ll be in good company as you join in with people from countries as diverse as Brazil and Columbia to Japan, the US, Turkey and Greece.
Watching more than one hour per day of TV is implicated in the violent nature of adolescents**.
Yes, if you’re a parent, your common sense has been corroborated by a very recent study showing that “Teenagers who watch more than one hour of television a day are more likely to become violent adults” yeah, you read right and not just from watching violence on tv, but from any programming. And its from Science journal so the TV PR spinners will have some work to do to come back from that one. This year Fair is saying to you - turn it off.
It’ll be fun in fact a helluva lot more fun than you’re currently having if you watch the box.. As granddad used to say, “get a bit of fresh air round their backsides”.
Don’t think you can live without it? try it for a couple of days, or for the whole of TV Turnoff week - you might never find the time to turn it on again.
Do it for your kid’s health, or your own; your entertainment or your sanity. Do whatever - but do the White Dot thing.
Click …. Dzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz http://216.156.105.63/buynothing/turnoff.html
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