Re: Fear and loathing in America

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From: Elmo
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:56

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BA wrote:

> KReece wrote in message
> 
>>USA TODAY  9/26/2003
> 
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>     Y'know, if more people post more national-news stories in full here,
> we'll be overwhelmed with them. How about restraining our enthusiasm to
> headline, lead paragraph, and link.
>     Okay. If it weren't for Copy-Paste, some people couldn't write. But
> word-processing and the internet have plowed Affirmative Action into
> journalism. Now if we can just make people want to read all of it, we will
> have Evolved.
> 
> BA
> 
> 
Making people want to read some of it would be a huge step forward. 
But if you could get more to read -- regardless of whether they read 
a left-leaning rag or a right-leaning rag -- there would be a chance 
that some of them might even learn to think.

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Subject: Re: Fear and loathing in America
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