Re: Hatch wants Gates back

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by Eric M. Bennett on 7/18/98 2:30 PM ---

>Most people don't think it's important.  One thing I will blame the media
>for is that too many of the articles I read try to be humorous.  They seem
>to leave the reader with the impression that this is just a dispute between
>two power-hungry organizations, and that the outcome is not relevant to the
>general public; the message seems to be that we should sit back and enjoy
>the show.

Granted, the public could show more interest. But this may be a chicken & 
egg problem, and media's chicken should come before the public's egg. The 
media's job is to discover and inform, not to feed back what they think 
the public already knows or wants.

   Mitch Stone
   Editor, Boycott Microsoft
   http://www.vcnet.com/bms 
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