I want to talk to you today about something important.

Of course, I don't try to talk to you about things that aren't important.

Try to talk to you about things that are.

And what's more important than your children, your grandchildren, your nieces, your nephew,

the young people in your life?

Here's the real story for today.

Mass media is teaching a lot more than just

the ABCs these days. So what am I talking about? Look, we all know that our kids are bombarded with

information, much more than we were, certainly much more than I was.

When I was growing up, we were still using chalk boards.

I went to school, it was a green board up there, and you used chalk,

and somebody stayed after to pound the eraser.

There was no technology in the classroom.

But today there is technology in the classroom and kids are bombarded with

information. Now there are problems with that because you would think them having access to so much

information that they would be really expanding their brains. Not actually working that way.

And as I say, I'll talk about that on another day.

It's not really helping.

But you also have to pay attention to what all is included in that mass media

and do the people that are programming it know what the hell they're doing.

And the answer to both of those

questions, by the way, is no. No, it's not necessarily expanding their brains and know the people

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