[Am-info] Sarah, 15, sticks it to Bill Gates

[Erick Andrews]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 14:20:59 -0800, Mitch Stone wrote:

>--- From a message sent by Dan Strychalski on 12/8/01 11:54 PM ---
>
>>Hmmm.... CBBC Newsround Press Pack reporter, 15-year-old Sarah Laughton
>>of Lincolnshire, England.... I'd be surprised if that weren't enough
>>information to find her
>
>Unfortunately, that's probably not enough information. Lincolnshire isn't 
>a city, it's a county and a fairly large one at that.


Yup, it is and I used to live in that neck of the woods...Thames Valley, 
south, anyway.  But acreage is unimportant.

I read the interview between her and Gates on BBC's web site yesterday.

How nice.  A pretty 15 year old English schoolgirl, not a "leaver", so it seems.

It is my strong belief that the whole thing was, shall I say with my British 
hat on, "staged managed".  C'mon:  "My system crashes too", says the Billster,
in a way that legitimizes the shmooze, crud and crap that Redmond likes
to spin.  Sarah did not push any more, at least as it was reported in the
BBC piece.

It would be nice to know if Sarah got money, or was just carefully profiled.

Probably a red herring.  Score another for M$.

-- 
Erick Andrews