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From: stone@nbc1.UUCP (Anthony Stone)
Newsgroups: news.config,news.sysadmin,news.misc
Subject: Re: Independent access
Message-ID: <466@nbc1.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 88 21:15:59 GMT
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Reply-To: stone@nbc1.UUCP (Anthony Stone)
Organization: NBC Computer Imaging, New York
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Summary: gateway to "The Independent in London" for techies not journalists

Hello Len and Erik. I too wonder about the consequences of journalists
having access to Usenet, but the gateway to "The Independent" (who,
BTW, is willing to assume 2-3 news feeds) is just for Dwight Ernest,
who used to run the site at Time magazine in New York and enjoys living
in Europe now but misses having access to the net. He, his wife (who
used to be at the Wall St. Journal) and those in his technical support
group at the paper are probably the only ones who will see the news.
Dwight should probably be answering this, but that's catch-22.

At NBC, where I work, no journalists see Usenet and gatewaying it into
their system would be pretty difficult. I think they would find it
interesting, but it would also just add to their information overload
since they probably find it just as difficult to keep up with all the
wire service and press agency reports on their system as we do with
Usenet postings on ours.

I used to work at a television station in Austin, KVUE, which is still on
the net and some of its news producers read the net occasionally and have
even gotten story ideas from it. But I think Usenet is still predominately
technical enough that it more of a sociological curiosity than a source 
of news to general interest journalists.

(Let's take news.config out of follow-ups to this discussion.)
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Anthony Stone			NBC Computer Imaging, New York, NY
stone@nbc1.ge.com		212-664-2206