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To: Zoltan! who wrote (1027)	3/15/1999 8:00:00 AM
From: SteveG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

Zoltan! In your seeming zeal to politicize the events, I fear you are both missing the point and misrepresenting verifiable facts. The Japanese had HDTV. The broadcasters seized on this as part of their nationalizing FUD ploy soley as a means to retain their excess spectrum that they were soon to lose to alternate commercial endeavors. It was this ploy by the broadcasters of nationalizing a battle that brought government and industry to the party, which included both dems and repubs. The early analog technical efforts were simply an address of the Japanese. The broadcasters and AEA actually involved and then USED the Japanese (at GREAT cost to the Japanese) as their straw man to bolster their FUD agenda. Analog/digital was not the partisan political battle line being drawn. It was government vs industry funding that was the partisan issue, and the "free-market" broadcasters were pushing heavy for government funding. In any case, you can continue to argue your dem-analog / repub-digital, but doing so in spite of the availability of contrary and publicly verifiable documentation (provided by Brinkley's book or from whatever other sources of fact you might choose to access and present here) doesn't seem productive to continue. So be it. BTW, I am not arguing for or against any political perspective, and have no interest in continuing being drawn into such a discussion. I prefer in fact to keep often contentious but rarely illuminating partisan politics out where they are incorrect, unsupported or tangential at best. Again, I suggest anyone interested in thoroughly and verifiable presented details on this issue to check out Brinkley.