I'm reposting an earlier post but with editing. The reason is the earlier one is too long and too boring. But the contents are important. I has to do with yesterday's article in USA Today regarding Y2K. The article is authored by M.J. Zukerman. M.J. is Mortimer Zuckerman who owns USA Today. He also owns, US News & World Report, the Atlantic, the New York Daily News, and a ton of real estate. Here is a man that has more than a little bit of juice in the world of journalism. In short he gets it and has to begun to write about getting it. Can other publishers be far behind? Who the hell knows but if they do the lines will get longer at the ch

-- 8 (8@8.com), October 12, 1999

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Actually, I think that Zuckerman earned his GI credentials a year ago, and he's been consistent. His USA Today bylines include:

"U.S. Aims to Avert Y2K-Induced War" Nov. 13, "Pentagon Exaggerated Y2K Readiness" Nov. 29 1998, "Y2K: Minor Glitch or Major Disaster?" Jan. 2, "Report: No One Should be Y2K Complacent" April 21, "Y2K Upgrades May Lead to New Trouble" and "Y2K Fixes Open Door for Electronic Heists" from July 16, "2000 'Bug' Unlikely to Disappear" Sept. 22. There have been others, (not all bad news) and USA Today's coverage has been pretty good, well, compartively speaking. (Remember though, much of what they print is from the AP.)

None of his other publications, however, strikes me as having said anything about Y2K.

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), October 12, 1999.

Man, some of you are funny. USA TODAY is owned by Gannett, and M. J. Zuckerman is one of their reporters. U.S. News and World Report is owned by Mortimer B. Zuckerman. They may be related; I don't know. But they are most assuredly not the same person, and the two publications are not owned by the same entity. Yet another reason to double-check each and every thing posted on this forum (or any online forum, for that matter).

Scott Johnson Editor, y2ktoday

-- Scott Johnson (scojo@yahoo.com), October 12, 1999.

Hey, you're right ScoJo! I thought there was something wrong with that, but I didn't really think about it. Still, M.J.Zuckerman seems to "Get It," based on previous reporting. And, lots of people read USA Today waiting for their planes to not fall from the sky...

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), October 12, 1999.

USA Today is probably the worst newspaper in the U.S., at least among those over 4 pages in length.

www.y2ksafeminnesota.com

-- MinnesotaSmith (y2ksafeminnesota@hotmail.com), October 12, 1999.

But, Minne- they have the greatest readership of them all (or damn near)

Night Train

-- Jes another illiterate footballer "HUKT on foniks wurkt fer me!" (nighttr@in.lane), October 12, 1999.

Does Jesse Ventura read USA Today?

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), October 13, 1999.