[plug] Binary Clock

[Cameron Patrick]

James Devenish wrote:

| In message <20040202063835.GA16058 at pinion.innovative.iinet.net.au>
| on Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:38:35PM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
| > Kids see the real world on TV, do they? Or is it just what the
| > script-writers want the kids to see?
| 
| Written another way:
| Kids see the real world in books and magazines, do they? Or is it just
| what the authors thought would make a good story?

And both are true to an extent.  Kids see the real world in the real
world.

While I probably spent rather more of my childhood reading books than
watching telly (and in both cases, avoiding the real world) and am
probably biased in this regard, I also suspect that there's a much
greater variety of values and ideas expressed in books than in
television.  The economics of producing TV are also such that there's
likely to be a lot more of a commericial influence on TV.  Likewise, old
books are a lot more readily available than old television.  (The
repeats of early Dr Who on at the moment are the exception rather the
norm in this regard.)

Cameron.