On Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:18:42 -0400 (EDT"), Arley Carter wrote:

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I've told some people about a few of the loopholes mentioned on the list about the new post office restrictions on airmail packages. What's disturbing is that none of the people I'd talked to, all of whom are at least reasonably intelligent, had thought or heard, for instance, that PanAm103 only took 12 ounces or that someone could just send two packages. How does the news media justify its existence? (Down here, it seems to be serving as a propaganda arm for the Republicans) ************

Where are you that the news media serves as a lapdog for the Republicans? The local media, esp. the print media around here, Winston-Salem, NC leans so far to the left the letters fall off the page when you up the newspaper. :-)

I'm talking about the San Diego Union-Tribune, the paper that posted huge billboard welcoming the RNC around the area, the paper that paid for the biggest fireworks display ever west of the miss, the paper that had a 6-20 page RNC insert daily, the paper that "spammed" the opinions page with pro-RNC articles. Are we starting to see what's it like? By the end, I was something like "I don't care if Bob Dole gets raped to death by a donkey, I don't want to hear about it!"

As for the national media, esp. the (C)linton (N)ews (N)etwork, need I say more? Agreed

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