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Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • A7

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Corvallis, Oregon
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A7
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AlbAny GAzette-times sunDAy, JAnuAry 25, 2015 A7 DAVID COLKER LOS ANGELES TIMES (TNS) Critics of Peggy Char- ren, a tireless activist for quality televi- sion, accused her of hat- ing TV. But Charren, who founded the highly influ- ential Action for Television in 1968 to com- bat monster said it was just the opposite. who think something has any value at all usually spend time trying to fix she told the Los Angeles Times in 1983. say- ing is that this can be a wonderful, magical box, particularly for children and it a shame that it Charren, 86, died Thurs- day at an assisted living facility in Dedham, Massa- chusetts, near Boston. She had been suffering from vascular dementia, accord- ing to the Sugarman Sinai Memorial Chapel of Provi- dence, R.I., which issued the death announcement.

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