Only when it has been taken away do we realize how much we count on the evening news to inform and educate.
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Only when it has been taken away do we realize how much we count on the evening news to inform and educate.
Transcript
The other day I turned on the TV. It was my plan to watch the evening news. But the evening news had been put on hold. There was a football game on television instead of the evening news. What kind of a country do we live in, when a football game can take precedence over an important news program that is going to tell me in detail about the latest celebrity to say something that wasn’t politically correct, have an affair, go to jail, or die of a drug overdose. Only when it has been taken away do we realize how much we count on our national news service to inform and educate.
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:The other day I turned on the TV. It was my plan to watch the evening news. But the evening news had been put on hold. There was a football game on television instead of the evening news.
OUTRO:Only when it has been taken away do we realize how much we count on our national news service to inform and educate.
