From: pk99nom@pga.ts.com (Pal K.)
Subject: Re:      BNN News
Reply-To: pk99nom@pga.ts.com (Pal K.)
Organization: Unknown
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 06:52:06 GMT

In article <Bu0zs1.8II@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> "T. Bao" <I990002@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU> writes:
>
>BNN(Business Network News) News (3 Sep 92 19:15 EDT) :
>
>A young man was arrested for taking some stuff from Kmart without payment
>earlier this week.
>
>A group of people who also had some misconducts in Kmart before gathered
>together and protested to the police that they had violated the human rights
>of the young man because he didn't resort violence. He didn't even carried
>a knife with him. He was a nonviolence advocate.
>
>The police said that the young man had violated the law of Kmart so they had
>the obligation to punish the young man to protect the right of Kmart.
>
>The group of people yelled at police: 'when in hell was the law passed?
>We didn't vote for the law. Why should we obey the law? It's not fair!
>And he is not an employee of Kmart. You have no reason to force him to
>obey the stupid law even if it really exists.'
>
>The police put him in jail with no mercy. The group of people were outraged
>and held a rally in front the police station. 'No Repression', 'No Torture',
>'Human Rights' and 'Release YM Immediately' were seen on the posts. They
>also sent some representatives to lobby the Congress.
>
>The story about the young man were carried as the headline news in the media.
>One of the major newspapers published the young man's article written right
>before his adventure in the Kmart. He was quoted as saying that the Kmart's
>management was based on non-humane xxxism created by an Old Man and Kmart
>should change its management system so that people can get free stuff from
>it.
>
>A small tabloid revealed that the whole event was a setup by some Kmart
>oponent (Walmart?) but very few people were convinced about that. It
>also said that this oponent had long targeted Kmart and wanted to destroy
>it.
>
>Some innocent people who were confused by the various news sources showed
>great concern about the event. They don't really like Kmart and complained
>about it now and then. They hope it will lower prices and offer better
>services. Unfortunately, they don't have access to the media to express
>their opinion even though they live in a free country. However, they do have
>a place to talk to their folks via something called email.
>
>People on the net were getting emotional after they started arguing about
>the motivation of the young man. Conspiracy or not doesn't matter as long
>as he wanted a better Kmart and it's his rights to do so, some argued.
>Others thought that he was used by Walmart and it's not ethic according to
>the established business codes. The debate is still going on.
>
>How Kmart will respond to the challenge is not certain. It was reportedly
>said that Kmart would put it in low profile so that its business can survive
>of Walmart's agressive competition. The CEO of Kmart privately admitted
>that Kmart really couldn't afford another war with Walmart.
>
>The young man is still in custody at the moment of the dispatch of this report.

I know I am in no position to be picky on other people's English.
But isn't that silly to fake a piece of "network" news with such
an ill-mannered piece of waste? I know the author tried to sound
as authentic as he could, but wouldn't it be better to claim the
above was a translation from an article of, say, People's Daily?
At least that way the author could get a perfect excuse for the
numerous grammatical errors. An American news service, of course,
may also make those errors, but I gether it would spread them
over its lifetime.

So much for the grammar. Now, I conclude the author of the "news"
failed the test of his cynicism, too. For such a person with
this evident lack of the knowledge of American judicial system
and journalism, his deed only made him a fool before everybody.

By the way, dear reporter of BNN, the act you have been trying
to describe in your "news" is called shoplifting, which is not
a mere violation of "Kmart law", but a federally presecutable
crime.