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To: DMaA who wrote (13469)	11/6/1998 3:21:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 67261

David, Just heard of the AP that my rep. Talent is considering a run for the speaker.....He really does have the right temperament for the job, but he's a dark horse. bp

To: DMaA who wrote (13469)	11/6/1998 7:05:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 67261

First Amendment or labor unions. Which should I support? I am not sure I quite grasp your question, David. Are you saying you agree with ABC Management that Boxer and Davis violated its rights, under the First Amendment's guarantee of a free press? The difficulty with that argument, as I see it, is that "management" is not the whole "press organization," which includes the locked out broadcast engineers and technicians. And I can remember the day when nobody, but nobody (except for management), would cross a picket line, or deal with what we used to call scabs. Maybe that's what guided Boxer & Davis. But I am no expert on labor law, and I don't know enough about this particular situation. Or perhaps you are opposed to unions, period? Well, some unions stink, of course, but the working man needs something to stand behind him in the workplace, if he is going to have any control at all over his own life there. Well, okay-- go ahead and abolish the unions, if you will also, at the same time, get rid of the AMA, the Business Round Table, the golf clubs where top execs wine & dine the politicians, & etc., & etc. (Gee, whatever happened to the days when every red-blooded American automatically distrusted Big Business!) As for the supposedly "sympathetic" ABC news staff, I wouldn't count on it. They may not be as "liberal" as you think. If you haven't checked out this piece on the "illiberal media," which I have posted several times already, you might want to do so: techstocks.com.