feeding hungry people

[Henry Mu]

The presentation of news, partial as it is by the inherent inability to
actually report on everything all the time, is never equal to reality,
and so (appropriately) invites speculation. In this blacked-out world
war, speculation (theory) is as valid as government public relations
releases.

Your theoretical headline (below) is not nearly as likely, as the only
anthrax targets in this country have been public figures and we haven't
yet blacked-out news about the crisis in America, but it is likely
enough that consideration of such a likelihood  should give the
perpetrators of bio-terrorism pause for consideration, just as the more
likely possibility (theory) of Afghan kids getting killed by mines
should be given consideration as a serious possibility. If it's really
safe, why haven't we heard some explanation about why it is safe in the
face of everything else that we, the public, know about the situation.

BTW, MD (20/20), in your upset with Doug, don't confuse me with him and
I won't confuse you with Dave. 

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₪ HM

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of MalignD at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:39 AM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: RE: RE: Re: Re: feeding hungry people

<<It is no different than believing anything that you haven't been
shown, but
that appears to be a reasonable assumption, i.e. a theory, until that
theory
is "disproved" by one that appears to be more reasonable.>>

I would say that news isn't a "theory."

Eight Catholic school children in Rochester, New York are dead from
anthrax
poisoning.