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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 23:17:36 -0500 (EST)
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From: Nancy Ammerman <emoryu1!phoenix.Princeton.EDU!nancyamm>
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Chapter 10: NEWS OF THE WORLD
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10.1 Clarinet: UPI, Dave Barry and Dilbert.
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Usenet "newsgroups" can be something of a misnomer. They may be
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interesting, informative and educational, but they are often not news,
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at least, not the way most people would think of them. But there are several
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sources of news and sports on the Net.
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One of the largest is Clarinet, a company in Cupertino, Calf., that
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distributes wire-service news and columns, along with a news service
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devoted to computers and even the Dilbert comic strip, in Usenet form.
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Distributed in Usenet form, Clarinet stories and columns are
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organized into more than 100 newsgroups (in this case, a truly
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appropriate name), some of them with an extremely narrow focus, for
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example, clari.news.gov.taxes. The general news and sports come from
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United Press International; the computer news from the NewsBytes
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service; the features from several syndicates.
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Because Clarinet charges for its service, not all host systems
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carry its articles. Those that do carry them as Usenet groups starting
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with "clari." As with other Usenet hierarchies, these are named starting
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with broad area and ending with more specific categories. Some of these
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include business news (clari.biz); general national and foreign news,
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politics and the like (clari.news), sports (clari.sports); columns by
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Mike Royko, Miss Manners, Dave Barry and others (clari.feature); and
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NewsBytes computer and telecommunications reports (clari.nb). Because
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Clarinet started in Canada, there is a separate set of clari.canada
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newsgroups. The clari.nb newsgroups are divided into specific computer
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types (clari.nb.apple, for example).
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Clari news groups feature stories updated around the clock. There
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are even a couple of "bulletin" newsgroups for breaking stories:
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clari.news.bulletin and clari.news.urgent. Clarinet also sets up new
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newsgroups for breaking stories that become ongoing ones (such as major
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natural disasters, coups in large countries and the like).
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Occasionally, you will see stories in clari newsgroups that just
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don't seem to belong there. Stories about former Washington, D.C. mayor
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Marion Barry, for example, often wind interspersed among columns by Dave
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Barry.
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This happens because of the way wire services work. UPI uses
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three-letter codes to route its stories to the newspapers and radio
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stations that make up most of its clientele, and harried editors on
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deadline sometimes punch in the wrong code.
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10.2 REUTERS
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This is roughly the British equivalent of UPI or Associated Press.
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Msen, a public-access site in Michigan, currently feeds Reuters
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dispatches into a series of Usenet-style conferences. If your site
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subscribes to this service, look for newsgroups with names that begin in
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msen.reuters.
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10.3 USA TODAY
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If your host system doesn't carry the clari or msen.reuters
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newsgroups, you might be able to keep up with the news a different way
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over the Net. USA Today has been something of an online newspaper
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pioneer, selling its stories to bulletin-board and online systems across
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the country for several years. Cleveland Free-Net provides the online
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version of USA Today (along with all its other services) for free.
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Currently, the paper only publishes five days a week, so you'll have to
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get your weekend news fix elsewhere.
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Telnet: freenet-in-a.cwru.edu or
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freenet-in-b.cwru.edu
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After you connect and log in, look for this menu entry: NPTN/USA
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TODAY HEADLINE NEWS. Type the number next to it and hit enter. You'll
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then get a menu listing a series of broad categories, such as sports and
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telecommunications. Choose one, and you'll get a yet another menu,
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listing the ten most recent dates of publication. Each of these
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contains one-paragraph summaries of the day's news in that particular
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subject.
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10.4 THE WORLD TODAY, FROM BELARUS TO BRAZIL
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Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty are American radio stations
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that broadcast to the former Communist countries of eastern Europe.
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Every day, their news departments prepare a summary of news in those
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countries, which is then disseminated via the Net, through a Bitnet
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mailing list and a Usenet newsgroup.
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To have the daily digests sent directly to your e-mailbox, send a
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message to
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listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
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Leave the subject line blank, and as a message, write:
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subscribe rferl-l Your Name
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Alternately, look for the bulletins in the Usenet newsgroup misc.news-
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east-europe.rferl.
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Daily Brazilian news updates are available (in Portuguese) from the
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University of Sao Paulo. Use anonymous ftp to connect to
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uspif.if.usp.br
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Use cd to switch to the whois directory. The news summaries are stored
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in files with this form: NEWS.23OCT92;1. But to get them, leave off the
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semicolon and the 1, and don't capitalize anything, for example:
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get news.23oct92
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Daily summaries of news reports from France (in French) are availble
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on the National Capital FreeNet in Ottawa, Ont. Telnet to
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freenet.carleton.ca
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and log on as: guest. At the main menu, select the number for "The
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Newsstand" and then "La presse de France."
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10.5 E-MAILING NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
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A number of newspapers, television stations and networks and other
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news organizations now encourage readers and viewers to communicate with
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them electronically, via Internet e-mail addresses. They include:
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The Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass. sysop@news.ci.net
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The Boston Globe voxbox@globe.com
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WCVB-TV, Boston, Mass. wcvb@aol.com
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NBC News, New York, N.Y. nightly@nbc.com
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The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont. ottawa-citizen@freenet.carleton.ca
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CJOH-TV, Ottawa, Ont. ab363@freenet.carleton.ca
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St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times 73174.3344@compuserve.com
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Illinois Issues, Springfield, Ill. gherardi@sangamon.edu
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WTVF-TV, Nashville, Tenn. craig.ownsby@nashville.com
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10.6 FYI
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The clari.net.newusers newsgroup on Usenet provides a number of
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articles about Clarinet and ways of finding news stories of interest
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to you.
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To discuss the future of newspapers and newsrooms in the new
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electronic medium, subscribe to the Computer Assisted Reporting and
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Research mailing list on Bitnet. Send a mail message of
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Subscribe carr-l Your Name
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to listserv@ulkyvm.bitnet.
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