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Editorials

This editorial highlights some social issues in the U.S. The U.S. federal crime bill debate , with the measure's easy promises of three-strikes lockup and longer prison terms, set the tone for the election season. Ignored in the media's happy hoisting of Whittle's head impaled on a pole is the more important national fight over Channel One, which only grows more urgent under' K-Ill. It's no accident that a disproportionate number of Channel One's force-feedings take place in the country's most resource-poor School districts. Schools that can't afford televisions are given "free" sets, VCRs and satellite dishes, which remain on the premises as long as students are required to watch Channel One every day. Three hundred students walked out of John Marshall High to protest Proposition 187, the anti-immigrant ballot initiative. One of these students was Leyda Azafleda, who was born in Peru and may or may not be a legal resident of the United States.