What an awesome gadget!

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Thanks!

Subject: What an awesome gadget!
From: (caroline)
Date: 9/15/2004 4:37 PM Mountain Daylight Time
Message-id:

Hey everyone,

OK, this really works. I saw a bunch of folks posting two months ago
with a reference link and laughed, but when those friends of mine
started getting their ipods in the mail, I started to think that maybe
it was time to hop aboard. All you need is five references to sign up
for one of the offers and you CAN cancel it, so it costs you
nothing..It's free! Just try it! Get five references and they will
send you a free ipod! Wired magazine and CNN both featured articles
on getting the free ipods proving this is NOT a scam! Click below to
find out more!

I saw it on TV, it must be true!

DR

On 16 Sep 2004 04:23:03 GMT, (DirtRoadie) wrote:

I saw it on TV, it must be true!

On Fox, no doubt.
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On 16 Sep 2004 04:23:03 GMT, (DirtRoadie) wrote:

I saw it on TV, it must be true!

On Fox, no doubt.

Don't you mean CBS?

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On 16 Sep 2004 04:23:03 GMT, (DirtRoadie) wrote:

I saw it on TV, it must be true!

On Fox, no doubt.

Don't you mean CBS?


Is there a difference?

Mark Hickey wrote:

Fox is killing the other cable networks,
even among many liberals who honestly want to hear both sides of the
issues (since Fox's approach is to put the opposing pundits on the air
simultaneously - sometimes noisy, but usually informative).

For anybody who has doubts about the news they read or watch, get
this DVD:

http://tinyurl.com/4zyzb

While it focuses on Fox "News", it's a indictment of all news media.
Fox is merely the best at being the worst.
--
terry morse Palo Alto, CA http://bike.terrymorse.com/

"Terry Morse" wrote in message
...
Mark Hickey wrote:

Fox is killing the other cable networks,
even among many liberals who honestly want to hear both sides of the
issues (since Fox's approach is to put the opposing pundits on the air
simultaneously - sometimes noisy, but usually informative).

For anybody who has doubts about the news they read or watch, get
this DVD:

http://tinyurl.com/4zyzb

While it focuses on Fox "News", it's a indictment of all news media.
Fox is merely the best at being the worst.
--
terry morse Palo Alto, CA http://bike.terrymorse.com/

People need to get over their qualms about partisan journalism. Read this
short article http://www.reason.com/0410/co.mw.unbalanced.shtml, but here's
the key quotation:

"(talking about OutFoxed) ...But the film’s meaty middle, which consists
mostly of on-air outrages and interviews with former employees who were
shocked by the partisan influence on their news gathering, is bookended by
rants against media consolidation that fail to recognize Murdoch’s gift to
his own ideological enemies: showing them that targeting a partisan audience
can be a very lucrative business."

Over the past several decades, the major news outlets have assumed an air of
impartiality, all the while spoonfeeding their consumers liberal leaning
content. This hasn't _necessarily_ been a conscious effort, but has
happened nonetheless. The problem, and the genius of Rupert Murdoch, is
that this left a gaping hole in the marketplace for news and commentary.
You see, there were 5 or 6 ice cream stands in town, and all they were
serving was vanilla. Well, Rupert opened a stand serving chocolate and
instantly gained significant market share, more in fact than any other
single ice cream vendor in town. This result should be obvious. The point
that's not obvious to liberal media bias deniers is that this rapid shift in
market share never would have occurred had the older ice cream stands
actually been serving a variety of flavors. They may have occasionally
thrown some chocolate jimmies on their vanilla and claimed balance, but no
one was actually serving chocolate ice cream - until now.

another quote...

"Murdoch, by consciously pursuing the neglected audience of conservatives
with both the New York Post and Fox News, broke the self-congratulatory
spell with which journalists had long told themselves that their own
editorial choices are driven by pristine motives."

Ha! Do you see it now? It was the liberal media's very own practice of
subtly pushing left-of-center news via article choice, headline choice,
interviewers' questions, and of course editorials, that actually served to
create the market environment which allowed Fox to arrive and thrive! Is
that irony!?! Someone help me out here. You see, liberals generally don't
understand economics, so when someone like Fox comes in and capitalizes upon
a market-based opportunity, they just don't understand, and instead wrap
themselves up in the warm blanket of grand conspiracy theories and big-media
fear-mongering.

This is competition, this is capitalism, and consumers win! Get over it and
enjoy!

Kyle

Mark Hickey wrote:
Not any more, especially. Fox is killing the other cable networks,
even among many liberals who honestly want to hear both sides of the
issues (since Fox's approach is to put the opposing pundits on the air
simultaneously - sometimes noisy, but usually informative).

That's been going on every Sunday morning for about 50 years
on the other networks.

Fox puts up a right-wing propaganda slinger, and then invites
a "liberal" (like Jim Cramer, who's about as Liberal as Jeb
Bush) to "refute" them by saying "you're right, but..."

The reason a lot of people think Fox is biased is because the
conservative viewpoint is always obviously right in those exchanges...
;-) - note

Only to those who only watch Fox.

http://www.moveon.org/fox/

--Blair
"Fair and balanced but not when
standing on a steep hill..."

Kyle.B.H wrote:
This is competition, this is capitalism, and consumers win! Get over it and
enjoy!

It's exactly the tactic that Osama bin Laden employs.

I prefer that we educate people in logic and hold our
journalists to standards that promote logic and demand
sincere apology for mistakes.

--Blair
"Here. Have another heaping helping
of asbestos, Consumer..."

"Blair P. Houghton" wrote in message
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Mark Hickey wrote:
Not any more, especially. Fox is killing the other cable networks,
even among many liberals who honestly want to hear both sides of the
issues (since Fox's approach is to put the opposing pundits on the air
simultaneously - sometimes noisy, but usually informative).

That's been going on every Sunday morning for about 50 years
on the other networks.

Fox puts up a right-wing propaganda slinger, and then invites
a "liberal" (like Jim Cramer, who's about as Liberal as Jeb
Bush) to "refute" them by saying "you're right, but..."

The reason a lot of people think Fox is biased is because the
conservative viewpoint is always obviously right in those exchanges...
;-) - note

Only to those who only watch Fox.

http://www.moveon.org/fox/

aahhh - the obligatory link to MoveOn.org... good stuff. Thanks for the
insight. Keep it up.