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Ford Prefect <remailer@bi-node.zerberus.de> writes: 

> fred_s@anthrax.cisco.com wrote:
>
> fs> No, I never heard of it because I never heard of it.  If it was a
> fs> "complete and total fabrication by extremist feminist groups", it
> fs> wasn't a very well-publicized one.
>
>I'm the first to admit that a fair degree of insulation from the popular
>culture is essential for maintaining sanity in the US (indeed, I managed
>to remain ignorant of the OJ case for nearly four days myself), but as
>numerous posters have attested, the PSBWBF UL _was_ in very wide media
>distribution.  I know that San Francisco it was nearly impossible to
>avoid.

Apparently, the Murky news managed to avoid it.  It's outside my door every
day and yes, I usually read everything on the front page.  I'm not saying I
don't go a day or two now and then and miss it due to vacations and so forth
but if it were as impressively well-publicized as some here make it sound,
there's no way I could be unfamiliar with it.  The truth is more likely to be
that it was one of those news events that held some interest for a day or two
on page 7 and then life went on and most people (including me if I noticed it
at the time) probably forgot about it - except those who were fascinated by it
or who had a tangible interest in it (e.g. women's shelters, family counselors,
etc.).  There's too much news every day in our world for most of it to be very
memorable unless we keep getting hit over the head with it.  And this was
definitely NOT a "quit-hitting-me!" news event.  Like the Simpsom trial (ugh!).

Fred