From: METZE@uimrlm.mrl.uiuc.edu (Virginia Metze)
Subject: Time Magazine Cover Use in Campaign Ad
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Organization: Ginny Metze, not speaking for anyone but myself
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:12:08 GMT


There is currently airing a BUSH/QUAYLE campaign ad which
shows the Time cover purporting to tell "Why People Don't 
Trust Clinton" and accompanies the display of the cover
with the usual attack on Clinton's draft record.  

Especially in light of polls which show that people distrust
Bush more than Clinton, and the failure of the biased news
media to put any pressure on Bush at all, I was incensed
by that cover when it came out on Time, and nearly cancelled
my subscription then.  I decided to wait to see how overall
fair they were going to be.

When this ad was aired I called the Time Customer Service
number, 1-800-843-TIME(8463), to inquire about it.

They told me that the cover had been used without permission
and that they were communicating with the Bush/Quayle 
campaign about it.  

So I said, "Look, the damage has been done.  What are you going
to do to REPAIR the damage?"  

They indicated they didn't know but were thinking about it.

I am going to wait to see whether they are really going to do
anything or not.

The bias of the news media is so apparent in this campaign that
it is sickening.  Public TV is just as bad as anyone else.  I
occasionally hear on CNN radio news some news items that 
are rarely covered anywhere else, so there also seems to be
news suppression going on.  The post debate 'discussion' on
MacNeil Lehrer which was 'led' by Charlene whoever featured
some pompous young republican talking about the great depression,
and had far more republicans than democrats on it.  It was so
biased and dull that it was just incredible.

Perhaps the only answer to all of this is to simply blot out
all media coverage -- magazines, radio, TV -- tune them out
and just think about what we have all seen in the last 12 years.
I am sick of being told that black is white and white is black,
and I am not going to continue to support media which engage
in those efforts.

On another issue:

Does anyone have suggestions as to how to deal with the mass of
postings to talk.politics.misc?  This morning I waited for minutes
and minutes and minutes while over 1600 postings were scanned for
subject, lines and 'from' data.  I have enjoyed reading the 
exchanges in this, but find it almost impossible to participate
because I cannot hope to keep up on a daily basis, and if I come
back three-four days later, everything has changed dramatically
and I have obviously lost out on a lot.

Is there some way that it could be subdivided?  

Ginny



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Ginny                                  Impeach Thomas!
metze@vmetze.mrl.uiuc.edu              Impeach the Rehnquist 5, 6 or 7!
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