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Wow ... that was powerful and really well done thank you for this great animation short it is now my favorite one!
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I think it's about the nature of a "radio show" being on television and how that could change it's meaning as a great piece of aural entertainment, like it changed the actions of the children, which is rare in this visually obsessed world. I'm glad they took it off the air. I don't need pictures to dictate how I should interpret sentences. Thank you Ira!
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It seems like Ira Glass and Chris Gray are over thinking the event-although I do love this show. There were at least two fights a day at the school where I went to seventh grade. The other kids always stood around and watched. Also Chris came out after it started and never goes into why it started. Sometimes people fight. Sometimes they need to. Maybe the kid getting beat up was a bully and the other kid had had enough? Now two or three on one is a different issue.
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When I went to Catholic grade school in the 70s, nuns could still smack the shit out of you if you weren't careful. A schoolyard fight was nothing.
Come to think of it, maybe that's why we never had outbursts of creativity like this.
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Wow
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Cameras were the scapegoat to what kids would have done anyway. I am the first one to break up a fight as an adult, but as a kid in grade school? No way.
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Perhaps its the fact that when viewing life from the third party perspective which alleviates personal responsibility and feelings. Your "justified" in doing nothing in fact, you are doing "something".
8 months ago 5
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Anyone know the song at the end?
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@gcarmenc They would watch and cheer, they would not "report" it.
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What podcast number is this?
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the point is that the fight was not stopped until the teachers noticed. none of the other kids bothered to help the kid getting his ass handed to him because they were to busy reporting the news, they cared more about reporting then helping this poor kid. that's the message at any rate the rest of you people commenting have a point, students are not always the first to step in when a brawl occurs and i think that is the real issue : ( also i think it said allot about trends
robotkage 2 years ago 28
OK kind of good till the end. The idea that it was because of the camera that they were watching the fight is just stupid. When two kids got in to fights we always stood around and watched and even chaired. No camera was around. It's what kids do.
gcarmenc 2 years ago 18