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    "data": {
        "id": 1409488,
        "msgid": "captive-audience-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-07-13 00:00:00",
        "title": "Captive audience",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Captive audience During this year's school summer vacation, we have friends and their children staying with us. After dinner on Wednesday, after the children were given permission to watch a feature film to be broadcast by Indonesian TV because, after reading the brief description of the film in The Jakarta Post, the parents agreed that it was suitable for the children. Meanwhile, we adults continued to sit on the terrace outside the house.",
        "content": "<p>Captive audience<\/p>\n<p>During this year's school summer vacation, we have friends and<br>\ntheir children staying with us. After dinner on Wednesday, after<br>\nthe children were given permission to watch a feature film to be<br>\nbroadcast by Indonesian TV because, after reading the brief<br>\ndescription of the film in The Jakarta Post, the parents agreed<br>\nthat it was suitable for the children.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we adults continued to sit on the terrace outside<br>\nthe house. Suddenly one of the children cautiously approached us<br>\nwith a look of guilt on his face as if he had done something<br>\nwrong. He then told us that the TV remote control seemed to be<br>\nout of order. The children claimed they could only receive one<br>\nprogram on all the seven local channels.<\/p>\n<p>We then checked together the remote control and, with some<br>\nrelief, we found that apparently it was Laporan Khusus time<br>\n(special report) again. We discussed the situation and we came to<br>\nthe same conclusion -- namely why not air the Laporan Khusus on<br>\none channel only and offer viewers a choice to see something else<br>\non the others. One of the children even mentioned this reminded<br>\nhim of the old days of East Germany, when everybody had to look<br>\nat one and the same show all the time.<\/p>\n<p>We believe it is the right moment now for the new government<br>\nto also reform the Indonesian TV system.<\/p>\n<p>MANFRED WEBER<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta<\/p>",
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