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"You won't win silver medals at the Olympic Games unless you're the very, very best." - Brendan Foster, BBC1 (source:Colemanballs, Private Eye)

Watch TV - learn less

2nd May 2003 by Simon

After seeing Fox News and other US TV coverage at the start of GWII, I wasn’t surprised to read the MIT Enterprise Technology Review and find:-

In the last Gulf War, researchers at University of Massachusetts found that the more television news people watched, the less likely they were to be able to answer basic questions about the war.

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