Re: Modern Journalism (was: All about Bernstein)

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>]

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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

On Sat, 26 Aug 1995, steven ryan wrote:

> You may not want to read those stories any more because you know all the
> details. But a puffed up cover story on Phil Z in People magazine would be
> one of the best things that could happen. . . .

I concur with Steven, but only so long as the piece is more or
less sympathetic.  I think Phil has gotten an amazing amount of
positive press.  In the scheme of things, this may prove to be 
more beneficial for the Cypherpunkish agendas than even his 
creation of PGP.  Phil's image--cryptographer as puppy-dog--will 
help us a lot more than the "evil kiddieporn/terrorist/hacker" 
image the FBI and Diane Feinstein would prefer the public to see.


 S a n d y

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