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From: paulf@Jessica.stanford.edu (Paul Flaherty)
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Subject: Re: "Commonplace"
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Date: 8 May 89 17:54:57 GMT
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In article <22000017@m.cs.uiuc.edu> zweig@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>  By the way, C-SPAN has much better coverage of shuttle launches than ABC
>for the most part. I bet it has a weensy bit to do with the number of beer
>commercials that aren't run during the countdown... (Wink!)

Huh?  The CSPAN coverage of the PANAMSAT / AMSAT OSCAR 13 launch was terrible!
Commentary came from one of CSPAN's political correspondents, and two newspaper
financial reporters.  Not quite as bad as Dan "I'd Rather Not" Rather, but 
that's hardly a compliment...

-=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX      | "Research Scientists need Porsches, too!"
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