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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: are we a member of the press - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 10:36:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 29 10:36:03 1983
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The concept of "The Press" as a magic separate entity is kind of
curious.  There is obviously a continuum from people who write single
letters or talk to single other persons over the phone through people
who mimeo newsletters with ten or a hundred copies or who talk as
amateur radio operators over the air where others can easily listen to
publications with circulations in the thousands or tens of thousands,
local radio and tv station, etc., to national networks and publications
in the millions of copies.  Anything which tries the distinguish "The
Press" from non-press sounds like nonsense to me.
	+	Donald E. Eastlake, III
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