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To: DMaA who wrote (168527)	6/4/2006 3:12:23 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793905

The means are interesting but of secondary importance. That some else in history used the same means is irrelevant. I'm sorry but I find that bizarre. The objectives and motives of the terrorists are well known. You'd have to be dumb as a stump or in a coma for the last five years to not know them. Any self respecting reporter would feel like an idiot and his readers would feel like they were being treated like idiots if the reporter made a point of the objectives and motives. That would be like explaining to us dimwits where Canada was located. Too obvious to mention. But everyone hearing that news might not recognize just what ammonium nitrate is or how much damage you can do with three tons of it. That's news you can use. These ARE news media, after all. Comparing it to OK City is almost as good as a picture for getting the point across. The info is also useful so we know what to fear, which is why I mentioned planes and soccer games. Useful. The salient points are Those may be the salient points for a history book but a newspaper is supposed to answer immediate questions. But even if you thing the objectives are more important than targets and mechanism for a newspaper article, I don't see how you can object to answering questions readers can be espected to have, as well. [The Army took down a high rise At Ft. Myers in Arlington this morning at 6:30. Made a very loud noise. TV, of course, had live pictures. Blowing up buildings is made for TV.]