They

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

Juan Cires Martinez writes:

> Someone asked who are They, and I have to say that I don't know.  But I
> read on the paper yesterday that in Argentina four people beat up the
> reporter that denounced an IBM bribe to get a contract for the national
> bank, and they branded him with a knife in his chest the letters IBM.

I read the same thing. Strange that papers so far apart carry such 
similar stuff. Makes one want to laugh at that farcical notion that the 
information age means greater freedom of information. While I 
wouldn't go as far as saying that this story was carried world-wide 
(or at least in those parts of the world where IBM 'operates) so as 
to serve as a warning to the would-be intrepid investigative journo, 
it does seem to suggest a lot about the info sources used by the 
world's press.

hg
hag at iafrica.com