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Old 7th Jun 2002, 23:38
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The pessimistic part of me suggests that little will change until the matter starts popping up more regularly on the TV news, thereby pushing it more in to the eye-level of the voting public. Newspaper and magazine coverage is great, but considering the literacy rates in this country and the pervasive nature of television, the way to get the public interested is for it to keep cropping up on the boob-tube. Interested public ask questions, which the media then want to cover/answer in order to gain more viewers/readers and so it would become a self-feeding loop for a while (until the public get bored again, or a new pop star is discovered or Kylie gets married). It was this 'frenzy' that created enough pressure to ditch Byers, so it should be enough to pressure BLiar in to pushing for a resolution here as well. Trouble is, how do you get the TV news to push it in to the public eye further?
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