The drones who do the counting deserve credit for drawing attention to the gush of brutality and viciousness ( particularly in cartoons and in advertisements for movies and news programs ), overdoses of which can reasonably be assumed to coarsen young sensibilities and may even move some shaky youths to go forth and do likewise.
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While his " The Seagull " coarsens one of Chekhov's late classics, the director surpasses his " Godot " production with the lesser-known " Waste, " a Harley Granville Barker play whose portrait of the psychological price for political misdeeds could have been ripped from today's papers.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson said, " Once again, tonight Bill Clinton and Al Gore will stage a reprise of their Hollywood dinner act, putting their hands into the pockets of those who manufacture the movies, music videos and compact discs that twist our children's minds, coarsen their conversation, and darken their thoughts ."
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Paradoxically, the burgeoning presence of digital media did not coarsen public figures'behavior, but instead by 2009 appeared to have induced a cautious reserve attributed to a mindful avoidance of possible mockery by video parodists; Whereas politicians became more known and accessible than a decade previously, politicians also learned to by-pass undesirable questions from traditional media by using self-produced videos to communicate with the electorate directly.
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And in appealing to audiences'baser emotions of anger and competitiveness _ rather than loftier ideals of pluralism or self-sacrifice _ the combatants in this rhetorical brawl not only make it more difficult for the next occupant of the Oval Office to govern effectively, but they also coarsen the national discourse, goading people to think in terms of legalisms and self-interest, and to adopt a simplistic moral vocabulary that labels everyone a hero or villain, a winner or sore loser.
