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echo: barktopus
to: John Beamish
from: Geo.
date: 2004-08-09 23:03:10
subject: Re: Bush Administration blew cover of Pakistan al-Qaida sting operation

From: "Geo." 

why is it news if there is no specific information?

Geo.

"John Beamish"  wrote in
message news:4117ae60{at}w3.nls.net...
> News is about change.  Things staying the same (today the threat indicator
> is the same colour as it was yesterday) is not news -- unless, of course,
> the "change" is that things have stayed the same for several
days in a row.
>
>
> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:4116e20d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > "John Beamish" 
wrote in message
> > news:4116ad0c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >
> > > Moving the threat indicator from yellow to orange is news.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> >
>
>

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