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To: peacelover who wrote (23033)	3/22/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 97611

Peace: My friend, That is just poor old Don Quixote charging one more windmill..Reuters if it were to get to them would just laugh at it. We have to let the old goat out once an while, don't begrudge him some harmless fun. What he rings the bell about is in the spirt of being helpful, so he sees Reuters as the Titanic of the news service..with all the same faults and controlled by the same much the same sycophant personalities that launched the old ship and declared her unsinkable..they are the same bunch of artificially pious types with their insolent air of infallibility that has bestowed us with many tradgedies and assumed only token responsibility for them. That the Don acts upset when he catches them in a lie, is just to wake up some half asleep caught in the trance people and tell them not to take every thing some news media or analcyst writes as gospel, and in particularly Reuters. In many ways they are like the Titanic you know. I suppose so many people would belive it was the dumb ice bergs fault the Titanic went down..or they may blame it all on Captain Smith for steaming to fast for conditions ( but he was under pressure to set a record you know )..push to no littel extent into doing what any Captain knows he shouldn't by the same types who push Reuters around. She is the Titanic..of the news service I know of no other as large..or able to tell more people what to think than Reuters..don't you think that should call for some token of responsibility. They can not give Don Quixote an acceptable excuse for that artical he challaged. No more than the Owners and Captain of the Titanic could give me for her demise. And knowing they had too few life boats when they left..ah that's a real horror. But I doubt most land lubbers could see it the way I do..most of them seem well not dumb, but sort of brain washed ( if you are to carry one life boat on a vessel you must carry enough for all, there can be no privledged few under those cercumstances no matter the written law of any land, that is the law of the sea be it in writing or not, grown people who don't wish to understand it should be put to sea in icy water with out one. I could understand it under war conditions or certain other extenuating circumstances, but never with no exceptions could that include a commercial or for profit enterprise, what they did was unexcuseable from the day the ship left port. ..but the Don he sees that type thing happening even today and in many ways and well I can't keep him penned up all the time. republic.net Peace but at what price ?

To: peacelover who wrote (23033)	3/23/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Peace; CPQ..Reuters : I have some reservations about posting this to you but I think it is worth a note; It has to do with Reuters again..and CPQ.. the EC gave the ok today on the CPQ and DEC deal..if you care to check, Business Wire released it and had it on line, over 1hr before Reuters. -------------------------------- Business Wire stayed with Calling the European Commission just that. Reuters danced between that and European Union of which the UK really isn't..anyway the Business Wire release is more clear to the point, and timly ------------------------ Business Wire 11:06 AM EST Reuters 12:57 PM EST 1hr 51 min late..and why did they stall, did some of them want to buy in before the release.. The timing of both CPQ and DEC going up leaves this late release by Reuters suspect. --------------- I was wrong in thinking Yhoo gave Reuters an exclusive..as Business Wire is on Yhoo..however the headlines seems to default to Reuters..if you Don't click on NEWs..even though Business Wire had it first..it did not show up in the Headliners until Reuters released it..1hr and 51 min late, I suggest if your using YHOO and tracking a stock not to count on the headliners..but click on news as you may miss a timely update if you don't. ---------------------- Hope no one is offended but I still think Reuters SUCKS Jim