David Hinckley of the New York Daily News (a great friend to the Newark Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention, by the way) comments on the ouster of Bob Edwards from Morning Edition.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/v-pfriendly/story/184431p-159970c.html

My daughter’s school is participating in (actually, coercing and bribing students to participate in) TV-Turnoff Week April 19-25, 2004. The idea is that the student, and (I assume by extension) the family watches no television for that entire week. To quote from the material the school sent home, “this event is important to curb excess TV-watching.” This also includes computer/video games, too.

Ok, kids, shall we start running through how really daffy the idea of a one-week break is?
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