At 02:15 PM 2/23/2004 -0500, katharine sarikakis wrote:

We, the citizens, own the airwaves, yet we don't control them. The corporations that control them feed us a steady diet of electronic junk food and it is making our democracy sick. (Ralph Nader)

For those of us in the U.S., I can't think of a worse day to lead with a Ralph Nader quote. ;-) ----- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Asst. Prof. of Communication/Linguistics Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." -- Mark Twain