On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:33:36 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


"F. George McDuffee" wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:59:43 -0800, "SteveB"
toquerville@zionvistas wrote:

I ****ing give up on the press in the United States.
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Interesting responses, but such lapses are to be expected as the
US media attempts to "right size" down to where they can make a
profit to pay off their huge leveraged buyout/consolidation
loans.

Did you read any of the articles? Did you see anything remotely like what
Steve was claiming? I read the NYT and six or seven from Google News, all
from majors. There wasn't a hint of the press "suggesting" a delay in any of
them. It all came originally from a Fox News interview with a RNC official,
who made the suggestion herself.

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Indeed, and this is what getting your news on the cheap is all
about, i.e. copying handouts and press releases with no analysis
and fact checking. To see what we are talking about click on
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5972517.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082803165.html
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/br...12168181.shtml
and about 68,900 more if you google on rnc convention
postponement OR delay

On the other hand landfall of a major storm into the gulf states
will cause some problems in that a number of delegates, etc. are
also officials of these states that would be impacted and may be
needed at home, and communications into these areas may be a
problem.

The most critical aspect from the RNC viewpoint may be that a
major storm will pre-empt the news coverage and hype of [most of]
their convention. Tough for the political gas bags to get any
air time when 100+ MPH winds are blowing outside, the shingles
are coming off the roof and levees are failing....


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).