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From: wfp@well.UUCP (William F. Phillips)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Is the news media really that stupid?
Keywords: ignornace, money, power, the usual stuff
Message-ID: <10014@well.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 06:46:33 GMT
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In article <1116@tank.uchicago.edu> kean@tank.uchicago.edu (keane arase) writes:
	[quotations deleted]
>How about this?  Give a major newspaper(s) a feed to usenet.  Let them
>(or a particular reporter) run around reading the news.

>I'm sure they will find:

>1) a wealth of knowledgeable people,
>2) a great source for diversified opinions
>3) a gathering of people interested in a particular field (i.e. rec.guns,
>   soc.*, macintoshes, ibm's, unix, etc.)
>4) what this network is really about.

>Agreed that a reporter using news may be inappropriate within the charters
>of the net, but wouldn't that free up many confused or ignorant
>conceptions about us?

I am (or would normally be) in a position to do that very thing, and had
even been toying with the idea previous to reading this message.  I'm a
System Co-Administrator of New York City's only  full-service Public Access
Unix system (dasys1, which is currently down), and I have an old friend who
is on the city desk of one of the major dailies here.  He happens to be
moderately knowledgeable (sp?) about computers and might be intrigued by
the whole thing.  He is also a lawyer, and seemed to find the JEDR case
interesting.  I think I'll sound him out, and (if and when we're up
again) get him a free account for a while if he's willing to look around.

William F Phillips	(usually wfp@dasys1)	wfp@well
System Co-Administrator, BEC Public Access Unix, New York, NY