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- From: ez012344@chip.ucdavis.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Re: Clinton transition
- Message-ID: <21612@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:41:35 GMT
- References: <CMM.0.90.4.727542406.thubbard@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <16B5CA199.JHARTLEY@cmsa.gmr.com>
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- In article <16B5CA199.JHARTLEY@cmsa.gmr.com> JHARTLEY@cmsa.gmr.com writes:
- >Clinton is a master of symbolism and devoid of substance.
- >What did you expect his inauguration to be? Substantive? Haha!
- >
- >It'll be glitz, glamour, Hollywood, and a welfare nation for the US for the
- >next four years. Inasmuch as this is an empircally testable statement,
- >don't bother to attack it.
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- Ha. "Empirically testable". Did you really think such silliness would be
- immune from attack?
- <smirk>
- My smirk *is* empirically testable, however, so don't bother to attack it.
-
- Dan
- remembering our Hollywood B-grade president and his glitzy wife
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- To address the journalist: I'm not sure what the anthropological perspective
- on media would be, but I suspect that the media is simply engaging in
- capitalism -- they are more efficient than ever at giving the public what it
- wants. If the trend was for CSPAN style coverage of political events, the
- clamor would be such that everyone, in order to stay competetive, would sooner
- or later be doing it. But CSPANs fanatics are a minority, unfortunately.
- People magazine's fans are legion.
-
- Dan
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