media because the challenge to the right from federal and state government has largely been contained. So we have a strikingly consistent, continuous strategy of forty years with the focus more exclusive shifted to the media. Now the web offers yet another new media platform for execution of the tried and true strategy previously conducted through direct mail and sped up by cable but now directed exclusively at the media rather than ALSO at the media. What a provocative list! Certainly all of us feel overwhelmed right now. A couple of observations first: I am fascinated that the best "news" this year is from comedians: Jon Stewart, Air America, Garrison Keillor, the Onion. It seems to me that the key to your puzzle lies in the comic mind. Psychologists propose two main theories of humor. Freud argued that we laugh at what makes us anxious (so we laugh at jokes about bad things about to happen to others, eg.) Others propose that humor arises from incongruity--from discrepancy between two concepts or objects. For example, we laugh when the Onion has headlines such as "Documents reveal gaps in Bush's service as President" or "Cheney vows to attack America if Kerry wins." Why are these funny? A second comment, from a different angle altogether: Psychologist Robert Kegan proposed (in "In over Our Heads )stages of human consciousness, analogous to Piaget's stages of cognitive development. At each stage there is a reorganization of reality to accommodate greater complexity. A small child is egocentric--s/he