Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucf-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!mcnc!duke!ucf-cs!giles From: giles@ucf-cs.UUCP (Bruce Giles) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re: Slander! Message-ID: <1214@ucf-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 16:13:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.1214 Posted: Wed Mar 28 16:13:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Mar-84 01:24:53 EST References: <938@ihuxm.UUCP> <1500@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: University of Central Florida Lines: 24 >> Studs Terkel, historian, author ("Division Street USA", "Working" etc) >> was interviewed last week (USA Today 3/22/84) about the current primary >> electoral races. In it, he set forth a blast at our noble profession >> that ought not go unchallenged. >> >> "...I'm talking about that new class of upwardly mobile pros >> you find on the airplanes with their attache cases, their rimless >> glasses and their computers. We have a new crop of absolutely >> mindless, almost a species of almost zombie beings. They're for >> Reagan..." Gee, and I always thought those mindless zombies were the ones who read *USA Today*, the up-close and personal version of the *National Enquirer*. Sorry, but I can't take anything serious which reports on major stories by going to the "man-in-the-street" and asking "what to YOU think"/"how does this affect YOU",... without provided any hard information. ave discordia going bump in the night ... bruce giles decvax!ucf-cs!giles university of central florida giles.ucf-cs@Rand-Relay orlando, florida 32816