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To: Janice Shell who wrote (9103)	3/1/1998 6:44:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Janice, something about talk radio...back in 1986 I was pretty clueless how the stock market worked. I happened to dial up this radio show called "The ways and means committee" they talked about mutual funds and stocks and such. So I started listening day after day. The talk show host was a guy by the name of Don Mcdonald. He was great, explaining things in laymans terms I could even understand. So when I received my reenlistment bonus, I threw it in the Janus Fund and in Microsoft. That radio show and the subsequent education it excited me to learn has literally change my life. Don't underestimate the positive effects talk radio can have. Right now I'm listening to Doctor Dean Adell. He's interesting too. On radio you have the time to really explore topics. Television and newspapers are very limiting in this regard. Michael

To: Janice Shell who wrote (9103)	3/1/1998 7:22:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Talk radio creates a very authentic illusion that you are thinking (without the hard work).

To: Janice Shell who wrote (9103)	3/2/1998 7:24:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

OFF TOPIC Janice, the callers are a bunch of self-pitying louts I don't listen to talk radio very much, sort of like you -- in the car for fifteen or twenty minutes -- but I did watch Rush Limbaugh's TV show intermittently. Much of it was pious fluff, and his books were poorly written and riddled with grammatical errors. But he did serve a useful purpose in presenting things the mainstream media did not. Particularly noteworthy was his film clip (shown repeatedly ad nauseam) about Clinton laughing after Ron Brown's memorial service, not knowing the cameras were on him, and then suddenly recognizing it and putting on a sad face and shamelessly wiping away a fake tear. It was a masterpiece, and we never saw it anywhere else. I occasionally hear the tiresome but occasionally brilliant Mr. Liddy under the same circumstances. It's true that many of his callers are frustrated and poorly educated white males. But these people also need to have a voice and to be able to express their frustration, n'est-ce pas? There was a TV show on "talk radio" last night. Very interesting to see the development of it, and the extreme voices from both left and right. All in all, it's got to be a great country when almost anybody can say whatever he wants and even insult the leaders. We can express disgust even as we are reminding ourselves of the quote (falsely) attributed toVoltaire: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Jack