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Subject: [Leica] still more on Leica "rumor"
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Jan 4 10:35:08 2006

Sorry I missed the joke.:-)


On 1/4/06 12:52 PM, "Allen Graves" <p_intern@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 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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