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How to improve the media

1) Delete the printing of name calling letters and columns because it sends a terrible message to future adults and adds to cultural incivility.

2) Comprehend beyond promotion cruelty towards other animals, especially the slaughter and barbecuing of cows, pigs, ducks, etc. and become concerned about other abuses of animals because it’s the right thing to do.

3) Instead of promoting centuries of outdated mythology and a long panorama of other myths and superstitions, place a higher priority on information that is true.

4) Escape from boxes and masters and learn critical thinking skills and learn beyond what to think by choosing how to think and place honesty above what certain people want you to say.

5) Broaden your parameters because there are other places beyond Spokane and yes, beyond planet Earth.

6) Grasp the reality that education can be a lifelong endeavor and can stretch far beyond what you heard in this or that school or university.

7) Be less rigid and more curious because it’s the groundwork of learning, alternatively, once the mind closes, the game is over. We cannot learn.

Go forward young media person, not backwards.

Gordon Sanders

Spokane

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