correcting typo RE: col49 2 pt2
calbert at hslboxmaster.com
calbert at hslboxmaster.com
Fri Aug 10 01:00:57 CDT 2001
Tim:
> Just because an article on LSD is published in Life, or Time, or
> Newsweek, all of which have a fairly substantial readership, does not
> automatically mean everyone within that readership will find enough
> interest in that article to read it and thus make it "common
> knowledge." Few people read *every single word* of the publications
> they consume. Can you honestly say you read every single word in
> every single publication you encounter? Of course not. As
> intelligent readers, we pick and choose the topics and articles that
> interest us, skim some, ignore others.
I'm gonna hazard a guess that IF LSD was covered by one of those
publications, it would likely have been in the service of
sensationalism, probably a front page with some highly suggestive
and alarming graphic......I doubt is was slipped into a "My Turn"
column......but I'm due back to the Boston PL next week and will
try to check on that as well as the excerpts in Cavalier and
Esquire.....
love,
cfa
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