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Subject: [Leica] still more on Leica "rumor"
From: p_intern at bellsouth.net (Allen Graves)
Date: Wed Jan 4 09:52:15 2006
References: <BFE164D4.A3FE%bdcolen@comcast.net>

Sorry, B.D., it was meant to be a joke.

Allen

B. D. Colen wrote:
> I love this...Both of those papers publish 365 days a year, and each day
> provide how many 10s of thousands of words. The Post had a scandal in, 
> what,
> 1980? And the Times has been snookered a couple times, and we're talking
> about their "style of reportage?" Get real here - their style of reportage
> is to provide astoundingly good news coverage day in and day out - and once
> and a while psychos - in the case of the Post and Ms. Cooke and the Times
> and Jason Blair - or a self-aggrandizing careerist with a political agenda,
> make it through the screening process. Big whoop. ;-)
> 
> 
> On 1/4/06 11:34 AM, "Allen Graves" <p_intern@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>And don't forget the Washington Post.
>>
>>Allen
>>
>>jon.stanton@comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>>Hasn't this been the NYT style of repotage for years??
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>>From: Thinkofcole@aol.com
>>>
>>>
>>>>Here's what may have happened:
>>>>
>>>>On Dec. 29, a photography site in Spain called Caborian.com ran what it
>>>>called an April's Fools item in Spanish {see its dec. 29 posting}  saying
>>>>that 
>>>>in 
>>>>Spain the equivalent of April fools is celebrated on Dec. 28 and that  
>>>>"on
>>>>Caborian we wanted to maintain the tradition, publishing false news of 
>>>>the
>>>>merger of Canon and Leica." Here is the Dec. 29 posting...[it does not
>>>>mention  
>>>>Asahi Shimbun].
>>>>     
>>>
>>>
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