In a message dated 8/21/01 9:56:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Yeah, and it is the same way for all corporate-owned media, including TV. It was a real eye-opener for me relatively recently to read somewhere (I wish I could remember where...) that the purpose of television has become to deliver an audience to advertisers. I had basically known it but it was put so clearly... We are the product. It really sucks. Yay, yay, corporate globalization, here we come. Blech. -Yael >> Yep that's the way it is. Huge corporations own just about everything now.you may have read about this in Hope Magazine. For those who haven't heard of Hope, I STRONGLY recommend it. It's a wonderful,extremly positive magazine. I have a feeling many people here will LOVE it like I do. the address is: http://www.hopemag.com