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To: sea_urchin who wrote (13849)	5/2/2002 11:52:40 PM
From: ubetcha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81310

Searle, Alan is right. You are getting pumped all the stuff that we laugh at. The news people here in the US are the joke of the ordinary man. I for one would be really concerned if people really thought that what the media says is what the American people really thought. It is like the financial guru's on the news programs. They have been bullish for the past 2 years, and keep telling us that spring is just around the corner in the markets. Everyone wants to believe that. Hope you had a good sleep. Terry

To: sea_urchin who wrote (13849)	5/3/2002 8:26:10 AM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Respond to of 81310

I remember a number of years back, a major hurricane was hitting the coast of South Carolina. Dan Rather and CBS had a hurricane party that night--continuous coverage of storm and storm damage. He got to the point where the issue of casualties came up and I swear he was beginning to salivate at the corners of his mouth. The war in Kosovo was accompanied by a media blitz. I think that war was a defining moment for the press. It was at that point that they first were willing to fan the flames of hyswteria in order to get war fever going and thus have a story to cover. Shameful. The anti-war left media decided that a story comes before principle. This time around people aren't responding as much. They they are beginning to realize how lame the press is. Doesn't it make you wonder that the press has scewed beliefs on things like gun control, abortion, etc, yet the populous just ignores them. The more they try to slant, the less credibility they have. Er...did you notice that "Johannesburg" is competing in the Kentucky Derby at 6-1?