RE: Press coverage favors big companies, earlier speakers

[Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>]

I've been on the Net for ten years, and generally despise "emoticons."

If you can't recognize sarcasm, ain't my fault.

-Declan

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Crist, MA wrote:

> Most net-savvy people indicate humor with something like a "(grin)" or
> emoticon ":-)".  In your case, are you just not net-savvy, or were you
> actually giving up a glimpse of a hidden agenda?
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:declan@PATHFINDER.COM]
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 10:20 AM
> To: Crist, MA
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO
> Subject: RE: Press coverage favors big companies, earlier speakers
> 
> 
> Hey, that's not right!
> 
> The trade press was there too. But we don't like 'em as much and made
> 'em
> sit at another table and threw spitballs at them. 
> 
> -Declan
> 
> PS: None of this happened, for you humor-impaired folks in the audience;
> 
> journalists have deadlines and rush to file stories after hearings; I've
> only been at Morton's once and that was when a colleague at TIME took me
> there. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Crist, MA wrote:
> 
> > So, the mainstream press is for sale after all.
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:declan@PATHFINDER.COM]
> > Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 9:52 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO
> > Subject: Re: Press coverage favors big companies, earlier speakers
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Brett Glass wrote:
> > > I don't know if the press decided they wanted to go to lunch, or
> > ignored
> > 
> > We all headed out to a $120-a-person lunch at Morton's on K Street,
> > where
> > Microsoft's top lobbyist picked up the tab and we spent most of the
> time
> > swapping jokes about Janet Reno. How'd ya guess? 
> > 
> > -Declan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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