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> Or does the newspaper
> industry arrogantly believe that it can control content of every
> kind? 
> 
My impression from the press conference isn't so much that the NCN is 
directed against other news providers on the Internet as it is 
against having to cede control of the transportation media to 
commercial online services -- in particular, The Microsoft Network. 
Again, that issue was danced around and I have no concrete quotes 
that would support this, but my feeling is that that's one of the 
motives behind NCN.

Steven
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols  |QOTD: Operating at nineteen
sjvn@access.digex.net      |cents short of a paradigm. 
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