From: "Mark" 


"Robert G Lewis"  wrote:> I
wasn't thinking of the news media but the political tactics. I ceased
> watching Fox much a couple of years ago ( and I don't care that much for
> CNN either ) after they used strike for lockout one too many times ( It
> probably would have been a strike as they said but the owners did the
> lockout before the strike started)

Oh, yea I see what you meant now, but those tactics still have to have air
time to have any effect. Too, if Fox can say "homicide" bomber
instead of "suicide" over and over again, there's little chance
they can understand the difference between lockout and strike -- although
I'm not sure which story you're referencing.

> Can you get NBC 13 out of Philly where you are ? When I was in PA I
> watched them become a very very hyped up news show, esp. their weather.
> One snowstorm they hyped up so much that the day of the 'event' we got a
> whole whopping 1/2 INCH of snow. They spent the entire day telling us that
> it was POSSIBLE for the storm to turn around and come back to hit us.There
> was some talk of suing them as so many businesses and schools closed due
> to their forecasts 

I can get NBC-Philly, but almost never watch network news, so haven't seen
it. I mentioned some time back though, a reporter on the beach a town or
two up from here, talking up the big waves from some storm or another...

In the background was the ocean, with basically zero waves and to top it
off, a little kid playing in the surf 

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