Re: opt out?

[thansen@moscow.com]

Greetings Visionaires -

Government-controlled media?  Sounds like something out of Nazi Germany or the 
Soviet Union (neither of which exist any more).

Tax-financed schools ensures for the provision of education in society.

Government-controlled media extremely limits information available to the 
people.

Enough said?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


> Douglas said:
> 
> > I did not say that they were equal. But they are analogous. What argument
> > can be brought against tax-supported newspapers that cannot also be
> brought
> > against tax-supported schools? And such arguments would not work if
> applied
> > to street lights.
> 
> 
> I think that government provision of education and street lights are more
> analogous than the government controling education and the press. Society as
> a whole benefits because its members are literate, i.e. they can read a
> newspaper. Society also benefits from night lighting on public avenues, i.e.
> it reduces accidents. Society does not benefit from the government
> controlling the press, i.e. we have less information on which to hone the
> skills aquired in the public schools.
> 
> Troy Merrill
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas" <dougwils@moscow.com>
> To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 4:18 PM
> Subject: opt out?
> 
> 
> >
> > Dear visionaries,
> >
> > Judy LaLonde wrote:
> >
> > Public newspaper does not equal public education.
> > Faulty logic! Shame on you.
> > *********************************
> >
> > ??????????
> >
> > I did not say that they were equal. But they are analogous. What argument
> > can be brought against tax-supported newspapers that cannot also be
> brought
> > against tax-supported schools? And such arguments would not work if
> applied
> > to street lights.
> >
> >
> 
> 


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