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- From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
- Subject: Re: Princess Diana, Somalia, NY Times, history
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:31:00 GMT
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- In article <s705VB2w165w@netlink.cts.com>, galan@netlink.cts.com (Greg Gross) writes...
- >That semantic change was one that worked from the inside-out. For the
- >first time in our history in this country, we were addressing ourselves
- >by the term of our own choice. Newspapers gradually, even reluctantly,
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-
- ..told the white majority about it. And that's how whites came
- to adopt the new usage -- through the influence of the press.
- There was no other way they would have found out about it,
- social contact between blacks and whites being what it was then.
- And as for the "reluctance" factor, what you mean is that your
- editor was just waiting for the New York Times to do it... Enjoy
- the holidays, I'll be back next week to pick up the debate if
- necessary.
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