Author: Mike Castañuela
Date: 14:28:40 06/28/99
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Yes, it's so. I remember an anecdote about Socrates, in old Greece, about a man which was going to relate an incident to him, before which Socrates interrupted it doing to him a series of questions about the goodness of the saying by that, reaching the conclusion from since it was not going to be in something positive for anything or nobody, did not say it. On June 28, 1999 at 16:54:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >But where is the content? Even if the charges were fully true, where is the >benefit for the readers of the message? Perhaps I say this because there is no >benefit for *me* personally to hear bad reports about other people. I just want >to learn what they can teach me. If someone got angry and said silly things, I >reall don't care about it. Now I admit that others might. In fact I am curious >about others viewpoint on this very matter [Do they want to hear it or not?]. > >I see that sort of reporting as the equivalent of the "National Enquiror" or the >"Star" or 'Tabloid' type reporting. It has no interest whatsoever to me, but I >see millions of them selling in the supermarket checkout line. Maybe I am the >one who has it all backwards as far as the majority is concerned. I'd rather >read "Scientific American" or "Awake" magazine than "People" or any of what I >call 'Yellow Journalism' publications. > >But what can I say. My mother, who was college educated, subscribed to the >Enquirer for a time. :-( > >To each his tastes?
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