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The Globe & Mail, Toronto's self styled national newspaper, boldly 
entered the hotly contested media moron sweepstakes with reporter 
Geoffrey Rowan's "Sex, lies & commercial on-line services" piece 
subtitled "Dirty Talk / Lascivious chat is at the top of the list 
for inhabitants of electronic communities that people tap into 
through their computers".  

The article appears on page B1 of the Sat Feb 11 Report on Business.

Amongst other things Rowan claims that 

"people -- lots of them -- mostly just talk dirty to each other" 
 
Referring to the nearly 6 million North America on-line subscribers,

"... as much as 80 per cent of what they use the services for is 
prurient in nature."

Rowan further alleges that 

"... Prodigy, which bills itself as the family service .... reckons
that 60 per cent of the traffic over its system is people engaging in
cybersex."

Rowan offers no hard facts, directly attributed quotes, nor evidence
of any sort in support of his claims.

With all the cyber hanky panky, one wonders how there's time for all
the spamming, hacking, hate mongering, software piracy, flame wars, 
and miscellaneous nefarious activities routinely attributed to 
net denizens by the yellow press and its sister media.

Rowan and the Mop & Pail may not make Media Moron(s) of 95, but 
they've certainly made a respectable bid for February's Moron(s) of
the Month.

-bb