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Monday, April 7, 2003

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1 posted on 04/07/2003 11:33:53 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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Bummer when events unfold faster than the time it takes to write the article and print all those expensive magazines... It's getting tough these days to make a buck in the mind-control business trying to look insightful. How is a megabuck media company going to deliver on its ability to sway majority opinion, when events keep outstripping their agitprop production process?

Answer: Just-In-Time News Copy!

Time, Inc., in order to serve its customers by appearing sufficiently prescient to deserve subscription receipts, will have to do up a menu of possible articles, in advance of any possible news event, each article designed to fit any number of possible outcomes and still toe The Party Line.

Can you imagine the cobbled up results? Sounds like material appropriate to The Onion, doesn't it?

They'll also need a staff of editors capable of pasting it all together. It could get expensive too... enough to drive them out of business. Well, it's either that or lose the readership...

Being liberals, of course, they'll be operating at a severe intellectual handicap, especially spinning outcomes they hate to even contemplate. I doubt even our leftist universities are up to meeting that kind of demand but I'm sure they'll try. Perhaps taking the emotion out of it would help? I'd bet that they might be able to generate a few algorithms so they could use software to sploot out the copy no matter what the event, standard Democrat responses being predictable as they are... Artificial intelligence might help. Anything would be an improvement.

Maybe we have a few FReeper software gurus who might offer to give them a hand? :-)

117 posted on 04/07/2003 3:44:50 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Because there are people in power who are truly evil.)
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"The enemy we're fighting," said army Lieut. General William Wallace last week, "is(a bit) different from the one we'd war-gamed against."

His actual quote. What a difference two words can make.
119 posted on 04/07/2003 8:36:50 PM PDT by Valin (Age and deceit beat youth and skill)
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