"Little Hawk, you're assuming that everybody who watches television or listens to radio does so with their minds totally slack and their critical faculties turned off."

No, Don. (smile) I am assuming that many people do that...enough of them that it constitutes a problem.

YOU are the one assuming (or pretending) that I am talking about people in "all or nothing" terms, as you usually do assume about me, because that would make whatever I said stupid, and that would suit your argument very well, wouldn't it?

Read a bit more carefully, and you will see that I was not talking in all or nothing terms. I am quite careful not to do so, but certain unscrupulous arguers on this forum are always happy to ignore that and misinterpret what I plainly said...thus stretching it to some ridiculous "all or nothing" extreme position which in fact I do not espouse.