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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:47:05 CDT
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- From: "Gregory B. Newby" <gbnewby@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: Access to Pres. Candidates on the Nets
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-
- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- Appended is a note from CRTNET (via the CLINTON mailing list) about
- electronic access to presidential candidates during the election
- season.
-
- I feel the world shaking, just a bit, as I read this type of
- notice and others. For example, Clinton (and possibly Bush)
- is accessible via Compu$erve. In addition, speeches by
- the candidates and the president (among others) are finding
- their way to anonymous FTP sites and mailing lists.
-
- For this year, the net offers some increased access to political
- candidates, and a public-accessible store of important information.
- For years to come, I see increasing equality of access to
- candidates, and a more empowered population -- not only will
- we be able to expect direct access to our representatives, we
- will have an electronic record of what they have to say on
- various issues (plus, I suppose, access to their actual performance
- records). As public access to the net grows, through such
- efforts as Freenet and the work of public libraries and
- schools, we will become more empowered and less dependent on
- others for screening information.
-
- 'Nuff said... The note follows.
- -- Greg Newby, U of Illinois, gbnewby@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
-
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:52:50 -0400
- From: Revised List Processor (1.7c) <LISTSERV@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
- Subject: File: "CRTNET 92-00219" being sent to you
-
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:27:00 EDT
- Reply-To: Tom Benson 814-865-4201 <T3B@PSUVM.BITNET>
- Sender: "Communication Research and Theory Network" <CRTNET@PSUVM.BITNET>
- From: Tom Benson 814-865-4201 <T3B@PSUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: CRTNET 618
-
- [stuff deleted....gbn]
-
- -- Bush & Clinton on Prodigy (Maria Rodriguez)
-
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-
- [ CRTNET 618 illustrates the rapidly
- growing use of e-mail in the American presidential campaign]
-
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:32:33 PDT
- [sender] Discussion of campaigning for President by Bill Clinton
- <CLINTON@MARIST.BITNET>
- [from] "Maria Rodriguez, Medicine Bx 0120" <CALBEAR@UCSFVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Bush & Clinton on Prodigy
-
- Great news from Prodigy: (See below) [PRODIGY is a
- commercial email and bulletin board service]
-
- "President Bush and Gov. Clinton will address PRODIGY
- members and answer selected questions on the Close-Up Board
- over the next two months.
-
- You can post public questions to Bush at Prodigy ID BUSH99B
- starting August 26 under the topic Ask the Candidate.
- Clinton at Prodigy ID CLIN99B will answer members' questions
- under the same topic the week of Sept. 7. Both candidates
- were offered equal access. Their participation on the
- Close-Up Board reflects their campaign schedules.
-
- Bush will post position statements on 4 issues Aug. 26,
- Sept. 9, Sept. 23, and Oct. 14. Following each statement
- his press staff will select 5 questions for the president to
- answer. Those answers will be approved by Bush and posted
- the following week. His answers will be typed and submitted
- by a campaign staff member.
-
- Clinton will post 1 position statement on the Close-up board
- and answer 10 questions a day for 5 days Sept. 7-11. His
- press staff will select the questions. Answers will be
- personally approved by the governor and posted by a campaign
- staff member the next day.
-
- Each of President Bush's position statements will focus on
- one national issue. Because of the limited number of
- questions answered by the presidient it will help if you
- direct your questions to the substance of that issue.
-
- Governor Clinton's statement will summarize his campaign
- positions.
-
- The text of the candidates' responses will be available for
- the duration of the campaign in the Speeches/Interviews
- section in POLITICS news."
-
- -----------------------------
-
- This is not an endorsement of Prodigy by me, but I thought
- you all may want to know about this in case some of you are
- members. I will download the statements and some of the
- replies/questions that I think may be of interest. I will
- also download from Prodigy and post their final answers. If
- any of you would like me to post a question for you, let me
- know (please don't make it too lengthy) and I will enter it,
- but I can't guarantee that it will be specifically answered.
-
- Maria Rodriguez CALBEAR@UCSFVM.BITNET
-