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The TV news can be used as a early warning device ,to learn what the enemy is up to next .It can be used to watch documentaries also .It can inform about the good and the bad . Finally I decide ,not the TV. Anyway my activity is mostly on the internet not on the TV . In the last four years it would have been of great benefit ,to always do the opposite of what our enemies demanded we do .

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Yes, TV news and documentaries can inform:

What's permitted as the background knowledge?

What's presumed or assumed?

What's taken for granted?

What's not questioned?

What is it possible to think?

(Watch out for ready-made 'problems' that disappear with ready-made 'solutions'.)

How the problem is represented has implications for how the issue is thought about, how the people involved are treated and prompted to think about themselves.

What meanings need to be in place for something to happen?

TV helps me interrogate the 'problem' as it is represented to be.

It can be a fun game!

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