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To: Ilaine who wrote (123250)	7/4/2005 12:02:43 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793738

<< People are mentioning that this summer's news cycle reminds them of 2001, nothing in the news but Condit and sharks.>> It wasn't a shark but a 124 pound catfish was just caught in the Mississippi River at Alton, Illinois. Same spot where a Bull Shark was caught in the '40s.

To: Ilaine who wrote (123250)	7/4/2005 1:20:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793738

Newspapers and satellite TV just make it easier to spread fear and loathing That's like saying that the availability of rifled weapons just made it easier for Civil War troops to shoot better. A statement which, while true of itself, massively misses the point, which is that more accurate weapons rendered Napoleanic-era tactics of mass charges obsolete, and caused simply horrendous casualties until the generals on both sides had figured this out. The advent of newspapers and satellite TV created the modern form of terrorism, because with the mass media, a few small but spectacular attacks, timed just right, could have an effect which Genghis Khan would have needed an army to achieve.