[thechat] Judge throws out hyperlink lawsuit

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Mon Aug 26 16:32:01 CDT 2002


On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Norman Beresford wrote:

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,361031,00.html
>
> People have always been crap, and always will be :(

Only now, the mass media are instructing people *how* to be crap - note
the last para of that story.

Note that the recent abduction/murder enquiry was *entirely* driven by the
media agenda, which of course was influenced by this being a
tradiationally quiet time for news.

Cheers
Martin

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