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- From: coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
- Subject: Re: Telephone calls for national politics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.200931.8580@osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1993Jan28.044204.7827@reed.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:09:31 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <1993Jan28.044204.7827@reed.edu>, nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
- > Am I the only one who is disgusted by this latest game in politics,
- > thousands of citizens telephoning various people in Washington DC and
- > registering their "vote" for or against the ban on queers in the
- > military?
-
- I don't think it's that new, although perhaps the amount of media
- attention it gets is. (All part of the increasing trend in the News
- Biz to provide "numbers" on every subject whether they mean anything
- or not.) Every now and again there's a hot issue that gets people
- calling their government. Most of the time, on most issues, 10 calls
- on any given subject is considered "a lot".
-
- > But what the hell? The news media are reporting the "tallies of calls
- > for or against" like they were votes or scientific polls or something.
-
- Saves them the trouble of coming up with substantive reports.
-