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What we have in the current round of anthrax attacks is an attack on major TELEVISION network personnel, with a few letters sent in what seem to be strictly personal attacks. The letter the New York Post received seems also to have been addressed to a building controlled by FOX and used by them as a business address.

What we do not have is an attack on major news media. Let's name a few who have not been attacked:

Washington Post

New York Times

Los Angeles Times, any of the "talking heads".

OK, OK, we here in FR don't consider them "major" or "news", but they are considered serious sources by some folks.

What does it mean when the TV folks get their poison letters and the newspaper people don't?

It means that the folks who mounted the attacks don't read English very well! (There is an alternative meaning to the effect that those folks know who their friends are, but I won't include that since it might offend someone)

And if they don't read English very well, and get all their news from network television, they are undoubtedly foreign and mis-informed to a degree the typical FreeRepublic reader cannot even imagine.

"What does it mean when the TV folks get their poison letters and the newspaper people don't?

"It means that the folks who mounted the attacks don't read English very well!"

If I may rain on your hypothesis, you left out several targets: American Media Corp (the tabloids) and the St. Petersburg Times. Plus, didn't the Rio de Janeiro office of the New York Times receive an anthrax letter, too?

Moreover, if "they don't read English very well, and get all their news from network television, they are undoubtedly foreign...", why has CNN escaped infection, thus far?

Or maybe they obtained exclusive coverage rights from the instigator and are maintaining a "professional silence", except for tipping HQ not to open the mail...