Re: Al Gore and the Internet (long and very very detailed)

From: Manoj Kasichainula (manoj@io.com)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 02:00:59 PDT

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On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:54:53AM -0700, Mike Masnick wrote:
> It's really more about how
> American culture likes to pick up on one small point and repeat the joke to
> death with no interest in actually understanding what really happened.

I'd be surprised to hear of any culture that would choose to read a
55kB article to deeply understand a single messed-up sentence, when
they could just laugh at a politician instead.

I wonder if someone has written a 200-page report explaining Quayle's
"potatoe" line.

> http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/index.html

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