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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Is the news media really that stupid?
Keywords: ignornace, money, power, the usual stuff
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Date: 10 Dec 88 04:12:35 GMT
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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>Yes, computers are everywhere, and people use them as tools.  But what
>they don't understand, most of them, are networks.  I believe computer
>communications media like Usenet go way beyond what a user who does
>his or her newpaper article or checkbook on a computer might
>comprehend.  Communications to them is dialling a number to download
>the stock market data or upload the article.

I'm not sure I'd generalize this far. Not only do I know of a couple of TV
stations on the net (as well as the New York Times) but I know of reporters
and other workers from many of the major news-services who are attached in
some way or another to networks like CompuServe or GENie. It's not a good
idea to look at ANY organization and make generalizations of the few and
shove them on the many. 

Chuq Von Rospach	Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms		chuq@sun.COM

When you're up to your *ss in alligators, it's hard to remember your initial
objective was to drain the swamp.