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	Sorry about my misinterpretation of Eric's data.  I took the 
"graphics turned off" to be Lynx, rather than whatever it is.  The 31
percent figure is pretty substantial, and so is just four or five 
percent, in fact.  Just ask a banker!

	FYI:  We're featured in a 6-minute segment on "The Site" on
Sept. 4 at 7 pm and 10 pm, and again on Sept. 5 at 4 am (all Pacific
Daylight Time).

	A release on it appears below my sig.

Best,

Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/today.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPT. 1, 1996
CONTACT: 213-828-3050 OR 213-467-0616 (Joe Shea)

	MSNBC'S 'THE SITE' SPOTLIGHTS THE AMERICAN REPORTER SEPT. 4

	A Hollywood, Calif., online daily newspaper run by 200 
profit-sharing journalists from around the world will get 06:10 of its 
allotted 15 minutes of fame Tuesday night when MSNBC's popular cable show 
'The Site' features a segment on The American Reporter.
	The one-hour show airs at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Sept. 4 and at 4 
a.m. Sept. 5 (all PST); the fifth segment, right after the half-hour 
break, features the paper.
	Founded by well-known community activist Joe Shea in April, 1995, 
The American Reporter appears on 113 Web sites in 16 states and Canada 
each day, and serves a clientele as diverse as the Rome (Ga.) 
News-Tribune and the statewide Casper (Wyo.) Star Tribune as a wire 
service.  The World Wide Web version of the paper 
(http://www.clickshare.com:9999) costs $5 per year.  E-mail subscribers 
pay $10/mo and can reprint articles for a penny a word.  
	A new book, "10 Secrets For Web Success" (Ventana, April, 1996), 
devotes a full chapter to the publication, which is best-known as the 
first true Internet-only daily newspaper and one of the WIRED Magazine 
Top 10 Online Newspapers (March, 1996). 
	The American Reporter is the sole plaintiff in Shea v. Reno, a 
Manhattan lawsuit challenging the Communications Decency Act, which the 
court found unconstitutional on July 29 and which the Justice Dept.
appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Aug 15 for a probable hearing next 
Spring.
	The remarkable thing about the paper is that cost nothing to 
start and very little to run; that's fortunate, because Shea has so 
little income from it he was forced to turn off his hot water, stove and 
heat 16 months ago.  
	But asked on-camera by segment producer Peter Graumann what  he 
would say if Microsoft offered him $1,000,000 for The American Reporter, 
Shea responded, "I'd have to think about it."

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