[9281] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What Will It Take To Educate TV About the Net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Hughes)
Mon Dec 27 20:32:10 1993
From: dave@oldcolo.com (Dave Hughes)
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 18:25:54 -0700 (MST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com (compriv)
In-Reply-To: <199312140057.AA05108@world.std.com> from "Barry Shein" at Dec 13, 93 07:57:57 pm
Well glory be. *ONE* TV network, NBC, is getting it right about
Cyberspace!
Tonight, Monday the 26th Dec, the Brokaw's NBC Nightly News (with
a stand-in Stone Phillips tonight) started a week-long series
on regular news about the Information Highways.
With clips from some very real uses of telecom, fiber, mixed with
some savy references to the 'only thing' Billy Idol, Clinton,
and Limbaugh have in common - email addresses (displaying them
all), clips from Kapor etc, they really did a nice job introducing
their '2001' series!
And low and behold they ended by saying "And we would like to hear
from you - diplaying in BIG cross screen print their Internet
e-mail address!
nightly@nbc.com
Hurrah! *Somebody* has their act together!
