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- From: pgf@srl06.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering")
- Subject: Re: World in danger
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:49:19 GMT
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- -From: rjp1@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (be here now)
- -Subject: world in danger
- -Date: 19 Nov 92 18:51:33 GMT
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- -Yesterday evening (11/17) on Headline News a short (~1 minute) news
- -item was read about a group of scientists who had published a document
- -warning us of the danger we're all in becuase of the rapid depletion
- -of the ozone and the also rapid extinction of many species of animals.
- -The news item was very brief and did not mention any names nor even
- -the title of the paper that was published.
-
- -It seems to me that if something as (seemingly) important as this
- -ought to have had more attention paid to it than a one-minute news
- -blurb without references.
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- -Bob Pietkivitch | "Moon, my long lost friend, is smiling from above."
- -rjp1@ihspa.att.com | -- Genesis, Stagnation 1970
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- Possibly because if it's covered in more than a 30 second blurb they
- might have to mention that many scientists _don't_ think the world
- is ending.
-
- And CNN isn't any better: they don't have enough time to cover science,
- they're too busy covering stuff like the men's movement and how you
- have to get in touch with your spear etc. (I'm serious! Who saw that
- this morning?) although the political bias of the owner is going to
- ensure that you won't hear about it when someone finds evidence that
- the sky _isn't_ falling.
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-
- --
- Phil Fraering
- In the country of the blind....
- 60 minutes doesn't run stories about people trying to ban hearing
-