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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY, MAY 04, 1999 23:22:08 UTC XXXXX
WIRE: DRUDGE REPORT MAKES TOP TEN MEDIA EVENTS OF CENTURY
The AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE on Tuesday unveiled its list of the "top ten media
events of the century". And along with Ted Turner, Ed
Murrow, and Guglielmo Marconi -- there's Drudge?
The AFP was founded in 1835 as the world's first wire service. With some
1,150 reporters and photographers covering 165 countries, AFP is one of the
top three suppliers of international news, chasing stories with the
ASSOCIATED PRESS and REUTERS.
TOP DATES IN MEDIA THIS CENTURY, BY AFP:
*December, 1901: Guglielmo Marconi sends the first radio waves across the
Atlantic, paving the way for worldwide broadcasting.
*November, 1920: First commercial broadcast program airs.
*1926: John Logie Baird invents television.
*1936: The BBC kicks off public television in Britain.
*November, 1951: Ed R. Murrow "See it Now" series launches nationwide
television programming in the United States.
*Late 1960's: A US defense department project to link computers lays the
foundation for the internet.
*1980: Ted Turner launches CNN, world's first all-news network.
*August, 1981: The all-music channel MTV goes on the air.
*1992: The browser Mosaic brings the internet to non-technical computer
users.
*January, 1998: Matt Drudge airs Monicagate on the internet.
About that January report, the AFP writes: "The media had turned full
circle, feeding public prurience in the way that penny-press forebears had
done at the start of the century."
The content of the media has changed little over the years, says the wire
in its century-ender on media.
"The route from the penny press to the World Wide Web began with the
invention of technologies that we now take for granted: the telephone, the
telegraph, the radio and the television. The emergence of mass media was
already apparent in the West by 1914, but in the interwar years, as the
world lurched from one political crisis to another, their growth was
explosive. This was the heyday of popular radio and the rotogravure
illustrated press.
"Radio transformed the life of the poor, especially housebound poor women,
banishing solitude as it brought the world into their home... The spread of
literacy meant that newspaper readership also expanded rapidly, so that by
1950, in the average developed country, between 300 and 350 papers were
sold for every thousand of the population...
"In 1990, British researcher Tim Berners-Lee -- who has been compared to
the inventor of the printing press -- created the World Wide Web, writing a
public-access program to help the general public navigate the labyrinth.
Two years later, with the release of Mosaic, the first commercial browser,
roaming the internet became -- literally -- child's play... The rest is
history, and a godsend for the Matt Drudges of the world."
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NEW STAR WARS THEME COMPOSED ON THE TOILET
Holy Planet Tatooine! Film composer JOHN WILLIAMS wrote portions of the
soundtrack for the new STAR WARS prequel EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE on
the toilet, according to wire reports out of England.
The celebrated music man is quoted on the WENN wire late Tuesday night: "I
remember writing ANAKIN'S THEME. I was sitting on the toilet, watching
GENERAL HOSPITAL, when all of a sudden the water plopped and brought
together a syncopated harmony that I found to be perfect for the theme of
the boy who will one day become DARTH VADER."
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CHINA'S NUKE LAB NOW OPEN TO TOURISTS
Mianyang City in Southwest China's Sichuan Province has opened a nuclear
weapon research institute to visitors in an effort to boost tourism.
It is the first tourism scheme of its kind in China. Mianyang is the
second-largest city in Sichuan Province and one of the most important
strategic weapons research centers in the country.
Tourists and visitors are now able to learn about the development of
China's sophisticated weapon systems in the China Engineering Physics
Institute.
...now that there isn't a need to visit Los Alamos anymore.<
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FIGHT 2000: GORE HIRES SMEAR QUEEN; TOP BUSH ADVISER STUDIED ATWATER
**Exclusive**
"We're praying that it's going to be George Bush, just praying!"
Those are the surprising words spoken by a campaign staffer for GORE 2000
in Washington.
The Vice President of the United States of America may be trailing the
governor from Texas in the polls -- a new CNN/USA TODAY phoner, 56% of all
respondents picked Bush, 40% went Gore -- but the real race has not yet
begun.
The dirt race!
During recent conversations with multiple sources close to Gore and Bush,
one theme emerges: Campaign 2000 will soon turn into a vicious war of
words, filled with personal charges and counter charges.
"Drudge, it's going to get dirty really, real fast," says one Gore aide
currently employed at the White House, who asked not to be identified.
Over drinks at The Palm last month, the aide held nothing back: "This guy
[Bush] wants the White House bad... but he is going to be waging an uphill
battle. The economy is great. Therefore, Bush will get personal, like his
daddy did. But he can't hold up, the stories we've got on him are enough
to fill a library! Clinton would be jealous of the action this guy has
seen."
No specific details were shared.
But one hint: GORE 2000 has quietly hired a new political director and
deputy campaign manager -- she is 1988 Smear Star Donna Brazile!
As a top campaign aide to Michael Dukakis during his run, Brazile hit
total controversy when she fed reporters rumors linking [then vice
president] George Bush with another woman.
Brazile told reporters during a bus trip to New York that Bush "owes it to
the American people to fess up."
"The American people have every right to know if Barbara Bush will share
that bed with him in the White House," Gore's new deputy campaign manager,
Brazile, charged during the final weeks of Campaign '88.
"Is George going to the White House with somebody other than Barbara? It's
important, we're not just voting for a man. We're voting for a family.
The first family is very important."
Brazile added: "Hey, I'm talking about George Bush and somebody with the
initials J.F. or whatever the names are."
Dukakis immediately fired Brazile over her conduct.
"Back when Monica Lewinsky was in a training bra, Donna Brazile was
perfecting the art of the personal attack," one official at the REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL COMMITTEE told the DRUDGE REPORT.
"Now that she's back, will she go after the Bush son the same way she went
after the Bush father?"
Are there tornadoes in springtime?
And the spirit of the late Lee Atwater -- the BUSH/QUAYLE '88 chair, and
perhaps the Republican party's best-known user of smash-mouth politics --
is also hanging in the air.
Watching BUSH 2000's chief adviser: Karl Rove.
Rove is a former colleague of Lee Atwater, who ran Rove's '73 bid for
College RNC chair.
According to Atwater biographer John Brady, Rove "organized conferences
that instructed young Republicans on campaign dirty tricks."
Plop.
[John Williams should score this one too.]
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Filed by Matt Drudge
Reports are moved when circumstances warrant
http://www.drudgereport.com for steaks and breaks
(c)DRUDGE REPORT 1999
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