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From: porges@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Letters to 60 Minutes -- your turn
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Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 14:55:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 20 14:55:00 1985
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>Two weeks ago I posted to this newsgroup a copy of a letter I  sent  to  60
>Minutes  regarding  their segment on Dungeons & Dragons and related teenage
>suicides.  Two of their shows have aired since that time  and  neither  has
>acknowledged  receipt  of  the  letter,  let  alone  apologized  for  their
>misrepresentation of the facts.  This apparent contempt for the facts,  and
>for us, their audience, leads me to think some cage rattling is in order.

	Look..I agree that the news report was probably seriously inaccurate
about D&D.  Having said that, let's not get so outraged that they didn't put
your letter on the air, OK?  These guys get hundreds of letters each week
from people who take issue with what they say.  Perhaps they'll get to some
such letter in their answerback segment within a month, which gives them
time to collect all the disagreements into a pile.
	(Point of irony about the original report:  what do you bet that
the people whose son shot himself have around their house or their car 
something with the slogan "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"?
Except when my son does it, and then we have to blame some other inanimate
object for it.....)
					-- Don Porges
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