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This is from Isthmus, April 3, 1992, apparently a newspaper or magazine
published in Madison, Wisconsin.  "Pull the Plug!" was reprinted in the
Winter 1992 issue of "S.E.T. Free:  The Newsletter Against Television."

Pull the Plug!
by Gar Smith

  In the final analysis, the smartest way to save energy and promote a
healthy and wise planet is to unplug the television set completely.  A
recent study by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst suggests
that exposure to television not only subjects viewers to
electromagnetic radiation, it also induces measurable amounts of
stupidity.  

  Researchers found that the longer test subjects watched TV coverage
of the Iraq war, the more they supported the war but the less informed
they became.  Pro-war couch potatoes were twice as likely as critics to
claim (incorrectly) that Kuwait was a democracy; only 31% knew that
Israel had an army of occupation in neighboring territories; only 3%
were cognizant of Syria's occupation of Lebanon; and only 2% recalled
that Iraq's invasion of Kuwait had been prompted by Kuwait's lowering
of oil prices and theft of oil drilled from wells in Iraqi territory.

  In the words of the researchers, "We discovered that the correlation
between TV watching and knowledge was a negative one."
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