Word: anthrax
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...There's no indication yet that the anthrax attacks came from Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda. Another group, or a freelance copycat, might have done it (that's the thing about attacking the media: there's no lack of motive), although obtaining anthrax is not quite as simple as sticking a needle in a candy bar. And in one sense, it hardly matters. If someone sends you a package of death, it's hardly going to make you feel better that the package didn't carry Osama's return address...
...theory, given that journalists do consider themselves the center of the universe: we'll cover, say, the loss of 38 jobs at Inside.com far more intensely than the loss of 500 jobs at a steel plant. There's just one small problem with the theory. We're talking freaking anthrax here. In a nation already fixated on bioterrorism, any anthrax attack, however small and wherever located, would have started a feeding frenzy, media self-absorption or none...
...There's at least one way in which we journalists are exactly like any other Americans: we don't want to die. And since journalists and their offices are disproportionately located in New York and Washington, we already felt disproportionately more threatened, long before any case of anthrax was known...
...fears of bioterrorism and anthrax infection continued to spread throughout the nation yesterday, University officials met with mailroom employees to ensure security measures...
...most serious incident, a piece of mail sent to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) tested positive for anthrax and forced a halt to all mail delivery in the Capitol building complex...