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From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Missing Headline from KW-Record Article
Keywords: administrivia
Message-ID: <415@zinn.MV.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 88 19:04:30 GMT
References: <2428@looking.UUCP> <5335@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <196@loci.UUCP>
Reply-To: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett)
Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH
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In article <196@loci.UUCP> clb@loci.UUCP (Charles Brunow) writes:
>In article <5335@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>, dmcanzi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (David Canzi) writes:
>+ I suppose some good may come of this.  Those who have been regular
>+ readers of rec.humor.funny can now see just how inaccurate newspapers
>+ can get.
>
>	I don't suppose you're willing to admit the possibility that
>	the news is right and you're the ones that are wrong.  Just
>	wondered.

Those are separate issues.  I could go over the Boston Herald article
paragraph by paragraph and demonstrate Mr. Canzi's assertion.  That is
not necessary, nor is it related to who is right and who is wrong, if
there are such people, in this issue.

But one other thing it proves is that the media is out there, willing
to be manipulated.  Taking advantage of it is a dirty trick...  Consider
this statement from the Herald article:

	" 'Then, I was threatened when someone sent out the message,
	  "My ultimate goal is eliminate Jonathan Richmond".' "   (sic)

Jonathan Richmond surely knew, as did the rest of the net, that this was
not a threat.  (If he believed that, he surely is a fool.)  Yet he was
willing to turn it into one for the sake of hyping his cause.

-mm-
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