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Subject: Re: AICN coverage of Richard Biggs' passing
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 04:24:37 +0000 (UTC)
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

>Apart from that, just conveyed far too little pertinent information
>about a tragic event that's obviously affected many, many people. It was
>insensitive, incompetent reporting.
>
>When a few people complained (not abusively, either, just expressing deep
>disappointment) that this antiseptic one-liner was somewhat disrespectful,
>they deleted the blurb and all the talkbalk posts complaining about its
>insensitivity. This uber-geek guerilla news site evidently felt revisionism
>was the way to handle their mistake.

Be a real shame if somebody hacked their site....



 jms

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