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- From: Anonymous <xxx.xxxx.COMPUSERVE.COM>M>
- Subject: And Fox is after the Hollywood Hacker?
- Date: 23 Apr 91 05:12:22 CDT
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- Fox's assault on the Hollywood Hacker gets even more bizarre. First
- one of their camera people is busted with a weapon by the Secret
- Service when they found him near President Bush, and now Murray Povich
- has come out with his book that makes us wonder what goes on inside
- the corporate board rooms, bedrooms, and computer rooms.
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- If what Povich says is true, it seems that some of these tabloid tv
- types routinely bustle around spying and snooping, but when somebody
- turns the tables the scream and yell.
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- Consider this from
- "Current Affairs: A Life on the Edge" by Maury Povich with Ken Gross.
- Published 1991 by GP Putnam's Sons.
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- Chapter 14, pgss 207-208.
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- "The launch date for 'Inside Edition' was January of 1989 and we
- went shopping around the satellites, trying to find out what
- stories they were going to do. That's how shows worked--they
- fiddled around with frequencies and latched onto the
- communications channels and listened in on the shop talk. It was
- spying. We all did it, switching around the dials, trying to
- pick up their satellite, pointing the transponders to find their
- bird so we could listen to their teleconferences and their
- stations, trying to winkle out what stories they were after.
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- They were also doing the same thing to us, because they knew how
- we worked and it was part of the game. Young and Tomlin were not
- there for nothing. I knew 'Inside Edition' was into our computer
- because that's the way it is. Maybe it's illegal, but that's the
- 'Front Page' mentality."
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- Throughout the entire book, Povich brags about the many and sundry
- ploys, devious tactics, and outright lies used by Current Affair
- staffers to get material (tapes and/or interviews) for their show. He
- constantly puts down the stuffed-shirt/establishment news types and
- makes he and his minions out to be heroic characters-- pioneers of a
- newer, braver school of journalism. "Killer journalists of the
- nineties," he calls them. Their battle cry: "Maybe it's not ethical,
- mate, but it's legal." (pg 254).
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- I thought that maybe inquiring minds would want to know.
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