At 6:42 PM 1/30/96, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

I'd say _all_ news, not just software news, is P.R. controlled, these days. You can largely hold Edward L. Bernays, the "father of public relations" (who just died last year) responsible for that--or the societal conditions

that allowed Bernays to do his thing. Bernays developed expertise in "engineering of consent" turned the news into a commercialized and

On January 13, 1996 I had the lead article in _Computer underground Digest_ (Volume 8, Issue 04) on the CyberAngels and how they were patrolling cyberspace against the Four Horsemen types. Rockland is certainly welcome to tell the cypherpunks list the press release(s) from which I wrote this "public relations." cc Tim May, CAF founder, chief technical officer, and media relations specialist