Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:14:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Dick Eney <dickeney@access.digex.net>
To: Millenium list <mmlist-l@newciv.org>
Subject: [Atlantis] Conspiracy revealed by White House; Internet implicated!
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.94.970114201243.25742X-100000@access2.digex.net>

The White House has finally come out with an explanation of the way
in which conspiratorial activities come to light.  At least, the
White House Counsel's Office has come out with a 331-page report
called "Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce", explaining
for the first time since the Nixon Administration how a conspiracy
exists to plant fringe stories in the *media*.  And it's all done
via the Internet!

It goes like this: Well heeled Sinister Organizations cook up a
story and disseminate it by...well, heck, let me do a flow chart
for you:

                        (WELL FUNDED RIGHT WING)
                     (THINK TANKS AND INDIVIDUALS) 
                      -------------V-------------
                                   |
                   --------------------------------
                  |                |               |
                  V                V               V
              (WESTERN)        (AMERICAN)      (PITTSBURGH)
            (JOURNALISM)       (SPECTATOR)       (TRIBUNE)
              (CENTER)          ---V-----        (REVIEW)
              ---V----             |             ----V----
                 |                 |                 |
                 -------------------------------------
                                   |
                                   V
                            *THE INTERNET!*
                            ---------------
                            |      |
           -----------------V      |
           |                       |
           V                       |
       (BRITISH)                   |
       (TABLOIDS)                  |
           |                       |
           v-------------------v---|------------------v
           |                   |   |                  |
           |v------------------|---v-----------------v|  
           ||                  |   |                 ||
           VV                  V   V                 VV
       (Wall Street)         (Washington)        (New York)
         (JOURNAL)              (TIMES)            (POST)
             |                     |                  |
             ------------------------------------------
                                   |
                                   V
                            (CONGRESSIONAL) 
                              (COMMITTEES)
                                   |
                   ------------------------------
                  |                              |
                  V                              V
            (WASHINGTON)                     (NEW YORK)
               (POST)                          (TIMES)

Once It reaches the DC POST and NY TIMES the story has been
"legitimized" and will be picked up by other papers worldwide.

One of the tools of this procedure tried to crawfish out of it by
the well-worn pretense that such a thing was implausible.  "Sounds
at first like an April Fool's joke, but since this is January the
[White House staff] must be serious... you would expect [the
President's office] to be too busy dealing with Elvis visits and
UFO landings on the South Lawn to bother with [this account]."  Of
course, we know what to think of a line like that.

There.  Now we know exactly what happens, maybe we can talk about
this Conspiracy stuff more rationally.    

-- Dick Eney