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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bombs & Guns In Schools ((Why))?
Saturday, 24-Apr-99 23:37:27

I'm not offended. I just think it's important to do a little research on your own before you accept, lock, stock and barrel everything you are told. I assumed you were Swedish because that's what a check of your IP# says. Perhaps you are using a proxy, then. You could be from any nation hostile to the U.S couldn't you? Newspapers, magazines, telivision, films, the recording industry are all privately owned businesses. They are in that business to make money.

Telivision, magazines and newspapers make their money by selling adds. A studio (which is also privately owned) produces a telivision series then puts the time slots for commercials up for bid by anyone who wants to buy it. The amount they pay depends on factors like how popular the program is with the public and what time of day the program is shown. Special programs like the Olympics, guaranteed to have huge numbers of viewers, cost advertisers staggering amounts of money.
Films and recordings are paid for by investors. The investors have no control over the content unless they are also producing the film or the recording. The only control any one has in any of the above cases is not to



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