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From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Rupert Murdoch buys NPR
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 21:07:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 21:07:16 1985
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From: david@ukma.UUCP <1569@ukma.UUCP>

>Yesterday morning as I was waking up I think I heard the strangest announcement
>on NPR's Morning Edition.  It seemed that NPR had been bought by .....
> [...]
>....sheesh!  can't remember his name.

His name is Rupert Murdoch.

>Could somebody please confirm this?  Or was I just hearing things?

You heard it.  You took it too seriously.  It was an April Fool's joke.
-- 
Bob Kaplan

"Our love burns like fire, then turns to ashes."