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"Harry Hope" |
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06 May 2004 12:05:26 PM |
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Bush goes into a tailspin. |
Only 36 percent of adults polled said they are satisfied with the way
things are going in the U.S., while 62 percent said they are
dissatisfied, Gallup found.
From Bloomberg, 5/6/04:
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aS2tsPMKJiR4&refer=us
Bush Approval Ratings on Iraq, Economy at New Lows, Gallup Says
May 6 (Bloomberg) --
President George W. Bush's support for his handling of the economy,
foreign affairs, the war in Iraq and terrorism have dropped to
all-time lows, according to a Gallup Organization survey taken Sunday
through Tuesday.
The nationwide poll of 1,000 adults found that 49 percent approve of
the way Bush, 57, is doing his job overall and 48 percent disapprove.
His approval rating is down from 52 percent in an April 16-18 poll and
60 percent in a Jan. 2-5 survey.
The latest poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Gallup conducted the survey as reports of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi
prisoners were drawing reaction from the White House and Congress, and
troops in Iraq were facing continued attacks from insurgents.
Only 42 percent of those surveyed said they approve of the way Bush is
handling the situation in Iraq, down from 48 percent in the April poll
and 61 percent in January.
``The public apologies and appearances by Bush have intensified the
focus on the situation there in the past couple of days,'' Gallup
pollsters David Moore and Frank Newport said on the organization's Web
site.
``The full impact of the abuse allegations and Bush's response may not
yet be reflected.''
Bush's approval rating for his handling of the economy dropped to a
new low of 41 percent in the latest poll, with 56 percent saying they
disapproved.
The president's ratings for handling foreign affairs and terrorism
fell to 42 percent and 52 percent respectively, also new lows.
In the April 16-18 survey, Bush got a 60 percent approval rating for
handling terrorism.
Presidential Contest
The president has made his leadership in the war against terrorism a
central theme of his re-election campaign.
Bush and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry,
60, were in a statistical tie among the 564 likely voters asked who
they would support if the presidential election were held today,
Gallup said. In the April 16-18 poll, Bush led Kerry 51 percent to 46
percent among likely voters.
In a two-way race, Kerry drew support from 49 percent of likely voters
in the new poll and Bush won 48 percent.
In a three- way race with independent candidate Ralph Nader, 70, Kerry
and Bush were tied at 47 percent, and Nader got 3 percent.
The margin of error for results based on the smaller sample was plus
or minus 4 percentage points.
Only 36 percent of adults polled said they are satisfied with the way
things are going in the U.S., while 62 percent said they are
dissatisfied, Gallup found.
__________________________________________________________
Harry
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| User: "jbag" |
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06 May 2004 04:05:43 PM |
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I wonder what percentage reads the newspaper? or could find Great Britain on
a map?
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:92sk90ptbu65dorpv58hfm2u5b17mkjnf2@4ax.com...
Only 36 percent of adults polled said they are satisfied with the way
things are going in the U.S., while 62 percent said they are
dissatisfied, Gallup found.
From Bloomberg, 5/6/04:
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aS2tsPMKJiR4&refer=us
Bush Approval Ratings on Iraq, Economy at New Lows, Gallup Says
May 6 (Bloomberg) --
President George W. Bush's support for his handling of the economy,
foreign affairs, the war in Iraq and terrorism have dropped to
all-time lows, according to a Gallup Organization survey taken Sunday
through Tuesday.
The nationwide poll of 1,000 adults found that 49 percent approve of
the way Bush, 57, is doing his job overall and 48 percent disapprove.
His approval rating is down from 52 percent in an April 16-18 poll and
60 percent in a Jan. 2-5 survey.
The latest poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Gallup conducted the survey as reports of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi
prisoners were drawing reaction from the White House and Congress, and
troops in Iraq were facing continued attacks from insurgents.
Only 42 percent of those surveyed said they approve of the way Bush is
handling the situation in Iraq, down from 48 percent in the April poll
and 61 percent in January.
``The public apologies and appearances by Bush have intensified the
focus on the situation there in the past couple of days,'' Gallup
pollsters David Moore and Frank Newport said on the organization's Web
site.
``The full impact of the abuse allegations and Bush's response may not
yet be reflected.''
Bush's approval rating for his handling of the economy dropped to a
new low of 41 percent in the latest poll, with 56 percent saying they
disapproved.
The president's ratings for handling foreign affairs and terrorism
fell to 42 percent and 52 percent respectively, also new lows.
In the April 16-18 survey, Bush got a 60 percent approval rating for
handling terrorism.
Presidential Contest
The president has made his leadership in the war against terrorism a
central theme of his re-election campaign.
Bush and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry,
60, were in a statistical tie among the 564 likely voters asked who
they would support if the presidential election were held today,
Gallup said. In the April 16-18 poll, Bush led Kerry 51 percent to 46
percent among likely voters.
In a two-way race, Kerry drew support from 49 percent of likely voters
in the new poll and Bush won 48 percent.
In a three- way race with independent candidate Ralph Nader, 70, Kerry
and Bush were tied at 47 percent, and Nader got 3 percent.
The margin of error for results based on the smaller sample was plus
or minus 4 percentage points.
Only 36 percent of adults polled said they are satisfied with the way
things are going in the U.S., while 62 percent said they are
dissatisfied, Gallup found.
__________________________________________________________
Harry
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| User: "InsuranceBroker" |
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06 May 2004 04:08:06 PM |
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Subject: Re: Bush goes into a tailspin.
From: "jbag"
Date: 5/6/2004 5:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <109la3ma1d0j80b@corp.supernews.com>
I wonder what percentage reads the newspaper? or could find Great Britain on
a map?
Is this a trick question? I am not sure the Great Britain still exists. I was
in London and New Castle last fall and I did not hear anyone use the term Great
Britian.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:92sk90ptbu65dorpv58hfm2u5b17mkjnf2@4ax.com...
Only 36 percent of adults polled said they are satisfied with the way
things are going in the U.S., while 62 percent said they are
dissatisfied, Gallup found.
From Bloomberg, 5/6/04:
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aS2tsPMKJiR4&refer=us
Bush Approval Ratings on Iraq, Economy at New Lows, Gallup Says
May 6 (Bloomberg) --
President George W. Bush's support for his handling of the economy,
foreign affairs, the war in Iraq and terrorism have dropped to
all-time lows, according to a Gallup Organization survey taken Sunday
through Tuesday.
The nationwide poll of 1,000 adults found that 49 percent approve of
the way Bush, 57, is doing his job overall and 48 percent disapprove.
His approval rating is down from 52 percent in an April 16-18 poll and
60 percent in a Jan. 2-5 survey.
The latest poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Gallup conducted the survey as reports of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi
prisoners were drawing reaction from the White House and Congress, and
troops in Iraq were facing continued attacks from insurgents.
Only 42 percent of those surveyed said they approve of the way Bush is
handling the situation in Iraq, down from 48 percent in the April poll
and 61 percent in January.
``The public apologies and appearances by Bush have intensified the
focus on the situation there in the past couple of days,'' Gallup
pollsters David Moore and Frank Newport said on the organization's Web
site.
``The full impact of the abuse allegations and Bush's response may not
yet be reflected.''
Bush's approval rating for his handling of the economy dropped to a
new low of 41 percent in the latest poll, with 56 percent saying they
disapproved.
The president's ratings for handling foreign affairs and terrorism
fell to 42 percent and 52 percent respectively, also new lows.
In the April 16-18 survey, Bush got a 60 percent approval rating for
handling terrorism.
Presidential Contest
The president has made his leadership in the war against terrorism a
central theme of his re-election campaign.
Bush and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry,
60, were in a statistical tie among the 564 likely voters asked who
they would support if the presidential election were held today,
Gallup said. In the April 16-18 poll, Bush led Kerry 51 percent to 46
percent among likely voters.
In a two-way race, Kerry drew support from 49 percent of likely voters
in the new poll and Bush won 48 percent.
In a three- way race with independent candidate Ralph Nader, 70, Kerry
and Bush were tied at 47 percent, and Nader got 3 percent.
The margin of error for results based on the smaller sample was plus
or minus 4 percentage points.
Only 36 percent of adults polled said they are satisfied with the way
things are going in the U.S., while 62 percent said they are
dissatisfied, Gallup found.
__________________________________________________________
Harry
Doing Insurance business in the Garden State
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| User: "jbag" |
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06 May 2004 04:34:32 PM |
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The whole island is gone? Maybe I need to pay attention. Or should I have
said UK?
"InsuranceBroker" <insurancenj@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040506170806.15274.00000956@mb-m18.aol.com...
Subject: Re: Bush goes into a tailspin.
From: "jbag"
Date: 5/6/2004 5:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <109la3ma1d0j80b@corp.supernews.com>
I wonder what percentage reads the newspaper? or could find Great Britain
on
a map?
Is this a trick question? I am not sure the Great Britain still exists.
I was
in London and New Castle last fall and I did not hear anyone use the term
Great
Britian.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:92sk90ptbu65dorpv58hfm2u5b17mkjnf2@4ax.com...
Only 36 percent of adults polled said they are satisfied with the way
things are going in the U.S., while 62 percent said they are
dissatisfied, Gallup found.
From Bloomberg, 5/6/04:
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aS2tsPMKJiR4&refer=us
Bush Approval Ratings on Iraq, Economy at New Lows, Gallup Says
May 6 (Bloomberg) --
President George W. Bush's support for his handling of the economy,
foreign affairs, the war in Iraq and terrorism have dropped to
all-time lows, according to a Gallup Organization survey taken Sunday
through Tuesday.
The nationwide poll of 1,000 adults found that 49 percent approve of
the way Bush, 57, is doing his job overall and 48 percent disapprove.
His approval rating is down from 52 percent in an April 16-18 poll and
60 percent in a Jan. 2-5 survey.
The latest poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Gallup conducted the survey as reports of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi
prisoners were drawing reaction from the White House and Congress, and
troops in Iraq were facing continued attacks from insurgents.
Only 42 percent of those surveyed said they approve of the way Bush is
handling the situation in Iraq, down from 48 percent in the April poll
and 61 percent in January.
``The public apologies and appearances by Bush have intensified the
focus on the situation there in the past couple of days,'' Gallup
pollsters David Moore and Frank Newport said on the organization's Web
site.
``The full impact of the abuse allegations and Bush's response may not
yet be reflected.''
Bush's approval rating for his handling of the economy dropped to a
new low of 41 percent in the latest poll, with 56 percent saying they
disapproved.
The president's ratings for handling foreign affairs and terrorism
fell to 42 percent and 52 percent respectively, also new lows.
In the April 16-18 survey, Bush got a 60 percent approval rating for
handling terrorism.
Presidential Contest
The president has made his leadership in the war against terrorism a
central theme of his re-election campaign.
Bush and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry,
60, were in a statistical tie among the 564 likely voters asked who
they would support if the presidential election were held today,
Gallup said. In the April 16-18 poll, Bush led Kerry 51 percent to 46
percent among likely voters.
In a two-way race, Kerry drew support from 49 percent of likely voters
in the new poll and Bush won 48 percent.
In a three- way race with independent candidate Ralph Nader, 70, Kerry
and Bush were tied at 47 percent, and Nader got 3 percent.
The margin of error for results based on the smaller sample was plus
or minus 4 percentage points.
Only 36 percent of adults polled said they are satisfied with the way
things are going in the U.S., while 62 percent said they are
dissatisfied, Gallup found.
__________________________________________________________
Harry
Doing Insurance business in the Garden State
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| User: "Tempest" |
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06 May 2004 07:37:57 PM |
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jbag wrote:
I wonder what percentage reads the newspaper?
We know Bush doesn't.
Or can't.
or could find Great Britain on a map?
Probably no more than the 13% of Americans ages 18-24 who can find Iraq
on a map.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:92sk90ptbu65dorpv58hfm2u5b17mkjnf2@4ax.com...
Only 36 percent of adults polled said they are satisfied with the way
things are going in the U.S., while 62 percent said they are
dissatisfied, Gallup found.
From Bloomberg, 5/6/04:
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aS2tsPMKJiR4&refer=us
Bush Approval Ratings on Iraq, Economy at New Lows, Gallup Says
May 6 (Bloomberg) --
President George W. Bush's support for his handling of the economy,
foreign affairs, the war in Iraq and terrorism have dropped to
all-time lows, according to a Gallup Organization survey taken Sunday
through Tuesday.
The nationwide poll of 1,000 adults found that 49 percent approve of
the way Bush, 57, is doing his job overall and 48 percent disapprove.
His approval rating is down from 52 percent in an April 16-18 poll and
60 percent in a Jan. 2-5 survey.
The latest poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Gallup conducted the survey as reports of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi
prisoners were drawing reaction from the White House and Congress, and
troops in Iraq were facing continued attacks from insurgents.
Only 42 percent of those surveyed said they approve of the way Bush is
handling the situation in Iraq, down from 48 percent in the April poll
and 61 percent in January.
``The public apologies and appearances by Bush have intensified the
focus on the situation there in the past couple of days,'' Gallup
pollsters David Moore and Frank Newport said on the organization's Web
site.
``The full impact of the abuse allegations and Bush's response may not
yet be reflected.''
Bush's approval rating for his handling of the economy dropped to a
new low of 41 percent in the latest poll, with 56 percent saying they
disapproved.
The president's ratings for handling foreign affairs and terrorism
fell to 42 percent and 52 percent respectively, also new lows.
In the April 16-18 survey, Bush got a 60 percent approval rating for
handling terrorism.
Presidential Contest
The president has made his leadership in the war against terrorism a
central theme of his re-election campaign.
Bush and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry,
60, were in a statistical tie among the 564 likely voters asked who
they would support if the presidential election were held today,
Gallup said. In the April 16-18 poll, Bush led Kerry 51 percent to 46
percent among likely voters.
In a two-way race, Kerry drew support from 49 percent of likely voters
in the new poll and Bush won 48 percent.
In a three- way race with independent candidate Ralph Nader, 70, Kerry
and Bush were tied at 47 percent, and Nader got 3 percent.
The margin of error for results based on the smaller sample was plus
or minus 4 percentage points.
Only 36 percent of adults polled said they are satisfied with the way
things are going in the U.S., while 62 percent said they are
dissatisfied, Gallup found.
__________________________________________________________
Harry
--
"The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing
combined with the stupidity of our people."
- Bill Maher
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06 May 2004 08:54:26 PM |
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jbag wrote:
I wonder what percentage reads the newspaper? or could find Great Britain
on a map?
The ones who vote for Bush don't. I come to work, I listen to NPR news.
The shop conservative? ***** hippy classic rock with the crank phone calls.
I read a newspaper at break. Mr. Conservative? Listens to more ***** hippy
music.
Not that it matters, Houston is the 4th largest metorpolitan
area in the US. Our paper, the Houston Chronicle has to be
the worst paper in the top 10 metropolitan areas.
Thank "Bob" for the net and websites like the New York Times and
magazines like the Nation.
Basically about 35% of Americans are basically functionally illiterate
and newspaper readership is at an all time low. Most people
don't know jack all about anything important.
The only thing the Houston Chronicle does a good job at is sports.
Sports. And more sports.
Its not a matter of right wing media vs left wing media.
Its a matter of stupid, lazy, incompetent media that puts as little news
physically in the paper as they can get away with. Often useless
filler about nothing that informs anybody of anything they need to know.
Whatever happen to come down some wire that filled a hole
that they didn't sell an ad to fill.
Jerks here are conservative because all the new they will get on important
issues are inflammatory ads by Republicans come election time.
Or listening to Wretch Liebrain.
Except for NPR news and the local Pacifica station where we can
get a spot of BBC, there is no real news here on radio.
TV news is the latest car wreck.
I no longer count the Chronicle as really being a newspaper.
Basically, most people here might as well live in a semi-literate
third world nation as far as being able to readily read about
something worth knowing as you walk in a voting booth.
We have no magazine stores left in Houston.
The racks at convenience stores, grocery stores, gas stations,
the last places that sell reading material is uniformly car magazines,
tattoo magazines, rap magazines, wrestling magazines, cruddy woman's
magazines or young men's lifestyle magazines, sex and cars and bad
music.
Its been months since I have seen a Time or Newsweek anywhere.
Its deeply depressing.
The basic ignorance on anything worth knowing around here is
massive, pervasive, deep, and savage. I live elbow deep in brutes
and primitives. The fact that some of them may find there way to a voting
booth is deeply depressing.
--
"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun
in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to
Canada. So I chose to better myself and learn to fly airplanes."
- George W. Bush May 1984 to the Houston Chronicle
Cheerful Charlie
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06 May 2004 11:34:00 PM |
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wbarwell wrote:
Its not a matter of right wing media vs left
wing media. Its a matter of stupid, lazy,
incompetent media that puts as little news
physically in the paper as they can get away
with.
Here, here. I don't even bother with newspapers
that only use news wires--I get the wires online
and I read the stuff they're printing two days
before!
The New Model News that someone should create should
just blow off the old journalistic ***** they
call "standards", and pull news right off the
Internet. "Can't be done!", says the old media.
Wrong.
There is an astounding amount of good news content
out there that is "free range". This means that it
appeared on a web page or blog as original material.
And if you have a one-time blanket permission for
use with attribution from that particular page,
you're in. Every web page permission you add
enlarges your Internet "wire service". You could be
twice as large as the AP in a few days. Most web pages
are more than glad to share, as long as they get credit.
The trick is to be ABSOLUTELY APOLITICAL and very
concise. Just one to three sentences, five at the
max. Headed by a web address.
The MEMRI ticker is a good news look:
http://www.memri.org/ticker.html
Last but not least, and this is an important one:
let everyman be your writers! Set up a payment
schedule for anyone who wants to contribute local
news, like $1 each for the first 10 articles accepted
and $2 each for the next 20, or whatever. Submitters
do NOT get bylines, they get a serial number. The
idea is to develop a huge freelance staff for local
items. If they make ONE screw-up, they are banned.
This last idea is the greatest fault of any newspaper
in NYC: no local news. "Just Can't Be Done!", they
say, and so they go out of business.
NO SPORTS, NO COMICS, NO OBITS, NO PRESS RELEASES.
If you do it right, say 75 cents for 20 pages, you
don't even have to run ads.
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Two headed people are the future.
Get used to it, single head.
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06 May 2004 11:26:24 PM |
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nu-monet v6.0 wrote:
wbarwell wrote:
Its not a matter of right wing media vs left
wing media. Its a matter of stupid, lazy,
incompetent media that puts as little news
physically in the paper as they can get away
with.
Here, here. I don't even bother with newspapers
that only use news wires--I get the wires online
and I read the stuff they're printing two days
before!
The New Model News that someone should create should
just blow off the old journalistic ***** they
call "standards", and pull news right off the
Internet. "Can't be done!", says the old media.
Wrong.
I need to upgrade my Linux OS and get a decent firewall up and running.
Then, get an RSS readers. RSS feeds are like websites that
dump news to you. You can pick and choose what kind of news,
what articles. Large amounts of stuff is linked through major new sites.
So you could with the right set up, have your RSS client scooping up
massive amounts of news and dumping it on your hard drive
at night, in the morning while you are at work, and on the drive home.
type in a search term, say "prison, Iraq" and you can scan the news since
last time you have search and see new items.
I need to learn to set up MySQL so I can have it dumped into appropriate
folders. indexed, sourced and dated so I can instantly search old stories.
"What was it Rumsfeld said three weeks ago about Bush's unfortunate brain
damage?".
RSS is beginning to take off, it was there in Netscape since the beginning,
but nobody much used it. Now its getting going big time as people write
RSS clients and servers and everybody's RSS servers are linking.
There are also converters to convert html or XML to small format for
PDAs. Dump this morning's news to a CF card and read it at break time.
Its looking like the sleeper killer app that is getting noticed.
Its just too complex for most newbies but people are beginning to write
clients that aren't too horrible for getting the basics.
The concept of software that culls stories for keywords and builds
metafiles for quick searches, storing these in a relational database
is awsome.
And people are beginning to get serious with agents that can
reach out through RSS space and hunt for stuff without flooding you with
trash or irrelevancy will make this bigger than google some day.
RSS is the future for serious news junkies.
Roll your own news sources.
There is an astounding amount of good news content
out there that is "free range". This means that it
appeared on a web page or blog as original material.
Or is linked to by a portal or site. Example,
an RSS site may link to the New York Times.
And may, like google, cache things. This works
mainly to sort stuff out.
If you want an RSS site that specializes in say, politics,
to send you stories on the latest polls, it will dump you
stuff from a list of original sources or other sites, perhaps RSS
sites with a special interest in polls.
So you'd get all the latest which you can read or search
specific polls. And sort into folders of your own interest.
Say you are interested in polls in Ohio and Pennsylvania,
you can sort them out automatically.
Now that this is getting going, you can get a lot of stuff
and set it up so you don't have to go out and get it.
It comes to you.
The best part is, sooner or later, we'll be able to get a
lot of stuff that has been expertly culled for us by knowledgable
people on specific items. For example the latest on
SS without the piffle or garbage from propaganda outfits
like right winger think tanks. With raw statistics from government
documents so you can read them and make up your own mind, with
experts to point out the less than obvious gotchyas.
Here in the Houston Chromnicle we don't get the real stuff, but we get the
op ed Heritage Foundation lies.
And if you have a one-time blanket permission for
use with attribution from that particular page,
you're in. Every web page permission you add
enlarges your Internet "wire service". You could be
twice as large as the AP in a few days.
There are RSS sites out there NOW that are.
The problem is sorting out what you want and finding a
way to cull the crap.
As people get on board RSS, that will happen.
People can divide up the work, cooperate, and
it is potentially bigger than mere websites or blogs.
Intelligent filtering and gathering of information.
Meaning "Prove it!" can be built in to news with underlying
information usually not in much 'news' which all too often is
unsubstantiated opinion.
--
"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun
in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to
Canada. So I chose to better myself and learn to fly airplanes."
- George W. Bush May 1984 to the Houston Chronicle
Cheerful Charlie
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