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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:57:25 EST
- From: FZC@CU.NIH.GOV
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Washington Post and Caller-ID
- Reply-To: tdarcos@mcimail.com
- Message-ID: <telecom12.858.11@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 858, Message 11 of 13
- Lines: 33
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- A point that was made about a year ago was that before Caller-ID was
- available either from or to telephones located in the District of
- Columbia, the {Washington Post} was running articles about the horror
- stories of bad happenings due to Caller-ID being available.
-
- When C&P Telephone of Washington DC was allowed to offer Caller-ID,
- the {Washington Post} had it included along with the new telephone
- system they installed. The Post never told anyone that it had
- installed Caller-ID. It wasn't until {The Washington Times} (a
- competing newspaper in DC) broke the story that anyone knew what the
- Post had done.
-
-
- Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM (These opinions are mine alone.)
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: It is not unusual for people in the media to
- consider themselves so Special and Different that the editorials they
- print each day would agree with John Bunyan's description of his own
- life: " ... what I say, and what I do in real life are often two ..."
- Channel Two in Chicago (WBBM - CBS affiliate here) constantly takes a
- pro-gun control stance; yet their camera crews always have a weapon in
- the van when they go to the scene of disasters and other news worthy
- events in 'certain neighborhoods' (read: black ghetto areas). And talk
- about hypocrisy! My competitor {The New York Times} takes a pro-gun
- control stance, yet whenever Arthur Oakes Sulzberg deigns to come into
- the city to his office in his chauffer-driven limousine, he always
- carries a handgun. I guess what they mean is *you* should not be
- allowed to have Caller-ID or handguns; its okay for the lawyers,
- politicians and media mogels though; they Know What is Best For Us.
- Kay Graham with her {Washington Post} and News Weak is no different. PAT]
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