Charles Hobbs had written:
| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/virgin..._virgin31.html
|
| "Radio newscasts used to use as a background sound effect a clattering
| wire machine. But news wires have been fed to newsrooms by computers for
| more than two decades (no clanging bells to alert editors to a
| bulletin). People might still hear that sound and associate it with a
| newscast without really knowing why -- but for how much longer? "

KTVU in Oakland -- yes, a television station -- actually *added*
that sound effect, very softly in the background but in stereo, a
little more than a year ago.

--
Mark Roberts |"The same sort of moral cowardice that led him to support the
Oakland, Cal.| Vietnam war but decide it wasn't for him, run companies into the
NO HTML MAIL | ground and let others pay the bill, play gutter politics but run
for the hills when someone asks him to say it to their face,
those are the same qualities that led the president to
lie the country into war, fail to prepare for the aftermath
and then refuse to take responsibility for any of it when
the bill started to come due." -- Josh Marshall