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   [Date]: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 00:15:01 -0800
   [From]: Susan Marquez <smarq@pacbell.net>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: Access

Ami/PEACE,

The examples you bring up are obviously ludicrous and are rather mean-spirited. And I hope you don't mind if I check up on your claims about "the French experiment."

Ami Isseroff wrote:

> Hi,
> I think the French experiment was simply premature and expensive - there
> was not a lot to do on the Web then. That will change.
> You wrote:
> "At least with an information tool like the internet integrated into it, you can
> instantly check on the validity or the source of anything you might see on TV"
> How would you do that?
> Can you check the validity of news at the CNN site ?
> Can you check if Noam Chomsky is telling the truth or quoting
> out of context at Z net?
>
> A number of hoaxes have been perpetrated through the Web (or
> with the assistance of the Web and conventional journalism).
> They were not squelched by web interaction.
> Nobody listens to the the truth unless it comes from "authority."
>
> As for your other comment - I am not cynical about television.
> I am realistic about people and what they can and cannot do.
> Best,
> A-