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On Sat, 15 Apr 1995 meyer@newslink.org wrote:

> >Your points about journalists becoming more involved in the electronic 
> >arena and less at City Hall are interesting ones.
It's always a feedback loop.  The press release shows up and reporters 
follow-up with interviews.  The means of communication is a funciton of 
deadlines.

> Forget both the 'Net and City Hall as panaceas or alternatives. The 
> people we really need to be talking don't have computers, aren't
> elected to office and probably don't even vote.
These days, there is more access than you might think.

> When someone finds a technology that institutionalizes our abilitiy
> to keep in touch with the common person, let me know.
I would invite you to go browsing through the usenet news groups.  The 
contributors run the spectrum from Washington Pundits to Volunteers who 
work in the Shelters.

The people listening are interesting too.  Some of these groups are more 
like meeting at the well or the town square or the park

The ability of the net to quickly capture a snapshot of public opinion 
from the a wide spectrum is acutally quite amazing.

	Rex Ballard.


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Tue Apr 25 03:57:47 1995
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