I'll agree with Mary Margaret Serpento's comments (copied below) and
reiterate that U S public-at-large interest in BimboGate should not be
judged by the media feeding frenzy going on. Most of the people I know
and/or talk to have stopped reading and watching the coverage, tho' it's
very hard not to know it continues to go on and on and on and on ad
nauseum. Of course, the longer it goes on, the more certain I become of
how I will be voting in November. :->
It does seem to me, however, that putting Bill and Monica on the front
pages of Australian newspapers to the detriment of important Australian
election coverage, while deplorable, says something about what stories
Australian editors think more likely to sell their newspapers. It's too
bad your press thinks a juicy sex scandal is as newsworthy as our press
does.
Just my one-cent worth (not worth more than a penny, if that),
Judy
Judith A. Flader
Washington County Law Library
Stillwater, MN
Mary Margaret Serpento wrote:
> Please don't confuse the media with the American public-at-large. Quite a
> few of us feel the same way you do. What really annoys me is the waste of
> >$40 M of my hard-earned tax dollars on this. And legislative time and
> resources diverted from matters like WIPO and the budget.
>
> Juste mes deux centimes,
>
> Mary Margaret Serpento
Ron Huttner wrote:
>
> Tim Stewart wrote:-
>
> >I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder.
> >
> >All I could find on the web site was stuff like this.
> >
> >Anyone have the dates of the Hillary stories?
> >
> >
> >Regards
> >Tim Stewart
> >Agana, Guam
>
> Dear American Law-Libbers and Americans in general,
> I'll undoubtedly get flamed for this, but I simply couldn't care less. Have
> any of you got the *FAINTEST* idea just how the rest of the world sees your
> current preoccupation with WJC's bj's, transcripts, videos etc ?? Over here
> you are increasingly looking infantile and appalling. Are Americans not
> interested in really *important* issues ? The environment ? Poverty ? Human
> Rights ? Racial Discrimination etc. In Australia we have a most important
> Federal Election coming up on Saturday 3 October - but wretched Bill and
> Monica have forced the election coverage off the front pages of our
> newspapers - to the total detriment of things that really matter. Could you
> ***PLEASE*** put Bill and Monica to bed.
> Singly or conjointly. By the way - is there any truth in the rumour that
> Andrew LLoyd Webber has teamed up with Paul McCartney and is just
> completing the libretto and score for "The Starr Report - The Musical" -
> with Whoopi Goldberg as Betty Currie, Linda Lovelace as Monica, and Robert
> Redford as Bill ???
>
> Ron Huttner
> Lecturer In Computerised Legal Research
> Faculty Of Law
> University Of Melbourne
> r.huttner@law.unimelb.edu.au
> "Internet Sites For Lawyers" - http://www.viclf.asn.au/research.html
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