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Message no. 1
From: MKNABUSCH@******.BITNET
Subject: Reporting
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 92 00:52:00 EDT
Remember all, the news agency are only concerned with their
ratings (read profits). They only print what is fit to tell the
public, not everything that goes down in the sprawl as it really
happens. If they did, a lot of corps would have big problems, and
us runners even bigger. Lots of us look at ourselves as the last
bastion of freedom in a corrupt world when if you really look at it
we're just highly skilled theives. Admittedly this sounds like a
Robin Hood senario (those of you who are saying WHO? check an
encyclopedia or myth optical chip of England during the Medevial
times) but don't gorify it too much. Some of us with reps. can choose
our assignments but the vast majority is doing what the public fears
the most in us.
-Harlequin <Who was not here/He he he>
P.S. If Feral shows up and craps about shop talk, he can <<<.05Mp deleted
by Sysop>>>!
Message no. 2
From: Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Reporting.
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 92 08:31:42 CET
> Remember all, the news agency are only concerned with their
>ratings (read profits). They only print what is fit to tell the
>public, not everything that goes down in the sprawl as it really
>happens. If they did, a lot of corps would have big problems, and
>us runners even bigger. Lots of us look at ourselves as the last
>bastion of freedom in a corrupt world when if you really look at it
>we're just highly skilled theives. Admittedly this sounds like a
>Robin Hood senario (those of you who are saying WHO? check an
>encyclopedia or myth optical chip of England during the Medevial
>times) but don't gorify it too much. Some of us with reps. can choose
>our assignments but the vast majority is doing what the public fears
>the most in us.
> -Harlequin <Who was not here/He he he>

>>>>>[ What is fit to tell the public? I have a reporter associate
("friend"
would be an inappropriate term here) who is as much a...what is the word?...
"muck-raker" as reporters are reputed to be. He makes it a point to be AS
ANNOYING AS POSSIBLE...and will glady go after the slightest hint of a scandal
(and publish it, if proved true or not) sometimes I could strangle him. True,
he's from a pirate network, but he also works with NN, a legitimate news
agency.]<<<<<
>>-- Darkwatch <01:27:05/10-24-52>

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