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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: Possible group: net.news.weather
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 05:04:27 EDT
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Correct.  I should have said this network SHOULDN'T be a substitute
for local media.  Obviously, some people treat it as if it were.
My favorite recent case was the announcement of Classic Coke.  It
was the most widely hailed public notice in the media--making
front page headlines and dominating all the news programs.  But person
after person guessed that they'd be the first one to tell the net
about it, and so for days we saw people announcing what we all
already knew.  Network latencies being what they are, the posting
of any sort of "news bulletins" just adds to the noise unless it's
something that wouldn't normally be covered by the media.

--Lauren--