TV and examinations
Sir, —The Education Department, in setting the school certificate English examination, must have taken for granted that all candidates came from families which regularly view television. The questions leave the few families who are boycotting television a narrow choice. In the days before television and radio good people used to spend their evenings thinking or praying for the cessation of war and violence, but now their mentality is controlled so that their ideas just reflect the status quo. Television itself has become, like the motor-car, a symbol of acceptability into suburban consumer society. — Yours, etc..
MICHAEL N. RHODES November 24, 1978.
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Press, 29 November 1978, Page 16
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