TV Turnoff Week frames a modern battle for choice
TV-Free America promotes National TV Turnoff Week started in 1995 with a pledge by 1 million to abandon television for a week. The piece contrasts anti-TV and anti-car groups, notes TV's ubiquity, and argues that media commerce drives passive consumption while warning public life under surveillance and consumer control. It cites George Orwell and scholars Miller and Crisp as warnings about totalitarian influence and corporate hegemony on everyday viewing.
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Tv-Free America
TV Free America
World Carfree Network
Anti-Car Crusaders
Worldcarfree.net
America
George Orwell
Mark Crispin Miller
New York University
Miller
Deason Staff Roster Mentioned in Telegraph Issue
The published list includes publisher William Randy Deason executive editor Thomas Colley news editor Samantha Perry managing editor Andy Patton senior editor city editor Brian Woodson and sports editor Bill Archer alongside Charles Owens. A Bible quote from Mark 2 17 is printed in the issue.
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Bill Archer
Charles Owens
Virginia governor tightens gun sales by mental illness checks
Gov Timothy Kaine issued an executive order to require courts to share involuntary inpatient and outpatient care orders with the Central Criminal Records Exchange, expanding mental health data used by Virginia gun dealers. The move follows the Virginia Tech massacre and aims to close loopholes that allowed sale to a dangerous individual.
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Commonwealth
Owledge
Timothy M. Kaine
Kaine
Virginia Tech
Seung-Hui Cho
Cho
Virginia
General Assembly
Virginia State Police
Central Criminal Records Exchange
BHS coaches exemplified citizenship in 1948
A veteran Army coach Patsy Malamisura and Navy mentor Ralph Griffith led a rough group of 13 and 14 year olds at Wade Field in Bluefield in 1948. Their disciplined approach shaped a rough Pop Warner style team into a well organized group praised as the best in the league, reflecting true citizen service.
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Army
Patsy Malamisura
Navy
Ralph Griffith
West End
Wade
Bluefield
Malamisura
Griffith
Wade Field
Patsy
Ralph
Scandals Offer Light Relief Amid Global Tensions
Dan K. Thomasson critiques public fascination with sex scandals in high places and celebrity missteps as a distraction from wars, terrorism fears, and climate anxiety. He parodies media focus on Palfrey's numbers and Baldwin's family rift while defending parental anger as a social constant and questioning leaks in the Renzi investigation.
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Ashington Wiriee
Iraq
Deborah Jean Palfrey
Alec Baldwin
Randall Tobias
Middle East
John
Alberto Gonzales
U.S
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Gonzales
Rick Renzi
Arizona
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del Mar College
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Samantha Perry
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Brian Woodson
Jesus
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Iowa
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BHS
Sunn
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Renzi
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Tobias
ABC Television
Baldwin
Scripps Howard News Service
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