RE: Press coverage favors big companies, earlier speakers

["Crist, MA" <Ma.Crist@trw.com>]

I'll take this off-line to avoid boring everyone.



-----Original Message-----
From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:declan@pathfinder.com]
Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 1:07 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO
Subject: RE: Press coverage favors big companies, earlier speakers


Not at all.

>From the time mankind invented the word, to the writing of Shakespeare,
to
the wit of Tom Sharpe, we've managed to communicate quite effectively
without :) $-% #=& !@#=** and so on. I admit it may require more skill
on
the part of the reader, but that's a risk I'm willing to take. 

-Declan


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

> Oh come on, now you're being obtuse.  I do not know you personally,
have
> never heard you speak, nor seen you use emoticons or any other "trait"
> revealers in any of your postings.  A sociologist would say that some,
> if not all of the above would be a prerequisite to determining whether
a
> person was given to sarcasm or not.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:declan@pathfinder.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 11:49 AM
> To: Crist, MA
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO
> Subject: RE: Press coverage favors big companies, earlier speakers
> 
> 
> 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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