It´s quite a dirty trick to issue a sarcastic comment with the little extra: I will ignore my opponents. A pity, and not quite in accordance with your nice footer parole. Robin On 30-01-2004 19:22, Barry Wellman wrote:
I learn something new from this list all the time.
Reading the digest today, I learned that Capitalism is basically responsible for media lies.
Which I guess excludes socialism, fascism, theocracies, authorianism, etc.
Guess that's why the USSR called its leading newspaper The Truth.
And why when I was at a conference in Moscow in 1982, I was handed -- on arrival -- the "final report" of the conference. We already knew the truth before meeting.
And so it goes.
My only comment on this subject. All flames will be ignored. Barry _____________________________________________________________________
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