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Biotech / Medical : PFE (Pfizer) How high will it go? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Anthony Wong who wrote (5140)	8/24/1998 7:23:00 PM
From: BigKNY3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9523

Anthony: I totally agree. PFE will circle until the EU decision is announced. Here's a column from a British publication The Guardian. BigKNY3 The Guardian Media Page Out go the suits, in come the skirts: If only! The boys still call the shots SHEENA MCDONALD 08/24/98 The Guardian Page 008 It's blue - a sly touch. It's lozenge-shaped. A few months ago, you'd never heard of it. Today Viagra is part of your landscape , and it's not even freely available in this country yet. But you'll recognise it when you see it, thanks to the endless free publicity the media are giving it (I'm doing it now). And it's come together with the tragicomic castration of democracy being played out across the Atlantic. President Clinton, who lived by the pork-sword, couldn't switch on a TV anywhere in the world without confronting the images of his nemesis. The flirt in the beret parading her little secret before the cameras. His own schooled and practised trashing of 'that woman', and elephantine casuistry in the definition of what was 'appropriate' and what constituted 'sexual relations'. And so to the final explosion. The predicted, predictable and pre-spun apologia. And the good old media? we just betrayed ourselves again, hanging out our agenda for all to see. This is a story about truth and democracy, right? Not our fault if the news programmes now need a PG certificate. We're just giving the people what they want in the virtuous name of public service. Don't call us professionals - this is a trade. If only AA Gill were right. If only women HAD taken over television! What utopia might we inhabit! Then the phallocentric anxiety which now dominates global culture, and of which the coverage of the president's woes and Mr Gill's peep of pique are manifestations, could be dealt with openly and to the benefit of all. Given their head, women will not marginalise men - women know what and how men are. The opposite is not the case, but if television really is beginning to open up dialogues between the sexes, is Le Gill really going against free speech? He's not alone, mind you. The industry is a last bastion of magnified male paranoia, all too often appropriated by women desperate to survive in the ongoing male hegemony. Hoary dictums are still trotted out - women have a sell-by date; women with children aren't up to the demands of the job; women are a warzone liability. One TV boss told me sadly he'd discerned my disapproval of the so-called and now media-oxygenated 'Real IRA' in my intonation: 'not appropriate for a news programme'. Sure, try telling that to Paxman, Buerk and Snow. What's rattling the cages of the gilded mediameisters and their lackeys is that women in the industry are beginning to throw away the rules. The silent supporter is being replaced by the independent voice. And no-one out there with the remote control seems to mind. Let me risk sounding like the progeny of a mystical union between La Cicciolina and Camille Paglia and invite the newsrooms to address the summer's real hot news: that the clitoris turns out to be 10 times bigger than we thought. I know, it's scary. It makes the arrival of drug-induced permanent erections look like a square wheel. It makes the fascination of middle-aged male journos with the presidential prong look like behind-the-bike-sheds pissing-up-the- wall competitions. And its implications, you can be sure, will not be aired on the 6 O'Clock News. Whatever it's decent to talk about, ladies' rude bits don't qualify. Even in these sex-saturated days, the whole truth is a wistful fantasy. Don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting that women would simply duplicate the current agenda. I'm saying 'yes, sex is probably as important as you guys think it is. But until we face honestly the full meaning of its importance, to women and children and men, then the information we broadcast will be a timid version of the truth, and the poor old pres will have some justification in his bitterness.' Sure, he was blown away by his own box of tricks. But he had a peterman with him, in the form of the prurient gentlemen of the press. I can't believe old AA isn't aware of the transparency of his device - seeking to maintain the dominance of his favoured team (men) by trying to pin their vices and abuses - exclusivity, inequality - on the enemy (wimmin). But honey, we're wise to it! Send off for the new rhetorical software, and while you're waiting, come and play with the girls. It's so much fun you might even stop thinking about sex every 11 seconds. .