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From: mikes@apple.UUCP (Mike Shannon)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Television coverage
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 16:01:59 EST
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Ray writes:
>You have a point there which I must of course counter with another point:  How
>much money did Nightline make directly due to America Held Hostage Day N?  The
>networks will turn a siatuation into a buck where ever they can.  

	Seeing as how the networks are corporations, it seems only
natural that their shareholders would encourage the network execs to engage
in profit-seeking behavior.
	I would certainly not want to hold the stock of a corporation
whose executives weren't concerned about profits.

-- 
			Michael Shannon {apple!mikes}