From: Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@src.umd.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 06:20:29 PST
To: Brad Parsons <parsons@bga.com>
Subject: Re: CBS/C.Chung Plan Hit Job on Internet? (fwd)
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On Thu, 12 Jan 1995, Brad Parsons wrote:

> From: Skip Leuschner <skipl@pacifier.com>

> I see C.Chung's program as one of the first vollies in a new phase of a 
> TV/print media project.

> Internet and talk radio emerged as political forces in the '94 
> election.  If political influence by the media is a zero-sum game, as I 
> believe it is, then the TV and print media must look to their own 
> survival by trying to discredit or regulate their talk radio/internet 
> competition.

Clearly.  I think Time magazine, as they come onto the Internet, is 
realizing that the culture here does not take well to bogus and 
misleading journalism.  The Time reporter who wrote the article on the 
modern militia movement in the US asked on talk.politics.guns what people 
thought about his article - oh my, you've never seen such a flamefest!  
Not to mention the immense amount of pro-firearm opinions on the Time WWW 
talkback area.  For a magazine which has publically announced that they 
are anti-RKBA, I think they are viewing all of this with some dismay.

That is only a single issue - I think as more standard media groups come 
on-line, they will have to choose either to try to destroy the net 
through demonizing it, or change with it into an adaptive reporting 
system with traditional journalistic ethics.

-Thomas