Television is the most effective brainwashing medium ever invented by man．Advertisers know this to be【C1】______．Children are affected by television in【C2】______we scarcely understand．In the fall of 1971, I was assigned a story【C3】______a young white woman living on the fringe of Boston's black ghetto．Her car had【C4】______out of gas．She had gone to a filling station【C5】______a can and was returning to her car【C6】______she was trapped in an alley by a gang of black youths．The gang【C7】______gasoline over her and set fire to her．She died【C8】______her burns．It was later established【C9】______some of the youths involved had, on the night before the killing,【C10】______on television of return of an old movie in which a drifter is【C11】______on fire by an adolescent gang．There is some kind of strange reductive process at work here．To see something on television robs it【C12】______reality, and then when the【C13】______thing is acted oat it is like the reenactment of something unreal．In【C14】______words, when the gang set fire to the girl, they were imitating【C15】______they had seen on a screen , as if they【C16】______were on a screen, and in a story, I don't think we have【C17】______begun to realize how powerful a【C18】______television is．It has already【C19】______very clear that the candidate with the most television appeal【C20】______the election.
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