Word: faxed
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Your report on electronic populism hits the bull's-eye: contemporary communications systems too easily accommodate everybody's reactions to everything [Cover Stories, Jan. 23]. Senators cite percentages gleaned from phone and fax communications from the citizenry to prop up their points. doesn't help with its frequent telephone polls. It is high time we give our representatives some breathing space to legislate without constant reference to the whimsy of the popular opinions of the moment. Even if 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing...
Your report on electronic populism hits the bull's-eye: contemporary communications systems too easily accommodate everybody's reactions to everything [Jan. 23]. Senators cite percentages gleaned from phone and fax communications from the citizenry to prop up their points. The media don't help with their frequent telephone polls. It is high time we give our representatives some breathing space to legislate without constant reference to the whimsy of the popular opinions of the moment. Even if 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still considered a foolish thing...
...Mostly I help with major day-to-day decisions, so it's necessary to stay in touch. Last year I used to fax and phone, and it cost a couple of hundred dollars a month...
...last week. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution need not prove its case ``to a moral certainty'' and could introduce evidence of prior violence in the Simpson marriage. But O.J.'s lawyers barely flinched. They have their special reserves--their boundless high style and winning courtroom ways, their fax hookup with appeals adviser Alan Dershowitz in Cambridge, Massachusetts, their famous and attractive client...
They knew how to do it too. Last September, when Gingrich announced the Contract with America, the Republican National Committee had lined up 300 talk-radio interviews for its signatories. Coordinating the blitz was Virginia's Contract Information Center, which has 500 radio talk shows on its superefficient fax network. CIC sent pro-Contract clips and talking points to the shows; many hosts read the material verbatim on the air. The scheme worked handsomely; the Rush Republicans went to the polls. Limbaugh's clout is immense; former Congressman Vin Weber says Rush is as responsible as anyone else...