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Originally Posted by Rog
a damning indictment of our education systems...................
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or its a damning indictment of our media. case in point...
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Originally Posted by Cacophony
surveys have shown that most people think it's a portmanteau of "epidemic" and "panic" rather than the application of "pan" to mean "widespread." you can have a mild pandemic, but no one seems to understand that.
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Is this an issue of people not watching enough news or watching too much of the wrong sort?
i guess this is the only point I was trying to make about the media. their value should be measured primarily by how much they themselves function as a kind of education system.