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* Forwarded from "Adult Links - SysOps 042"
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* Originally from Bob Schmedake
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* Originally dated 10-30-90 17:30
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* Original: FROM.....Sue Setley (100/380)
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* Original: TO.......All (100/520)
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* Forwarded by.......OPUS 100/520
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Here is the transcript. I downloaded it from another board. ASSUMING, that
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is, I can manage to put it up here. This is try number two (after 15 I'm
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going to stop reporting how many times I've tried! - grin)
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Downloaded from Electronic Communications
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39/50: Transcript of KSDK Newscast
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Name: Night Writer #80 @13454
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Date: Wed Oct 24 06:32:20 1990
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Well, here is the transcript of what I recorded off the channel 5 news this
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evening concerning the occult-related bulletin boards. I missed the first 10
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seconds or so, but managed to record most of it. The story is narrated by
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Deanne Lane, of KSDK (channel 5) News. It begins with Deanne talking in the
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newsroom with a picture of a keyboard and monitor in the background and the
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word "Occult" printed across them.
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START
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DEANNE: "...several of these programs because they say children as young as
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12 are gaining access to them. Among the bulletin board systems in question -
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'Weirdbase', 'PaganNet', and 'Threadfall'. Participants we spoke with say they
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are virtually harmless. Parents argue they can lead to drugs and lead their
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children away from home. That's what happened to the family you are about to
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meet. They are concealing their identities."
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SILHOUETTE OF MAN
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EMOTIONAL OLDER MAN: "It makes you mad you don't know what happened
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necessarily. It um, you worry, you're afraid that they'll be hurt."
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BACK OF WOMAN'S HEAD AS DEANNE SPEAKS
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DEANNE: "This woman claims her son ran away after being enticed by the
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controversial computer systems. As we reported, anyone with a computer, phone
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line, and modem can get involved. Users claim the programs deal with
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witchcraft and pagan religions. But they admit some youngsters can get in too
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deep, as this 15-year-old runaway explains."
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GARBLED PICTURE OF YOUTH
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YOUTH: "I guess they can get hooked on it and, um, start spending too much
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time in it and, um, ignoring other parts of their life and, um, some people
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can get just carried away with the... they think they can get power out of the
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magic."
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CAMERA PAN OF OCCULT AND MAGIC BOOKS ON TABLE
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DEANNE: "But his grandmother and the police officers who picked this
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15-year-old up say the most frightening aspect of these computer subcultures
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is that they are a way for older users to lure youngsters and that could lead
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to drugs and alcohol."
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SILHOUETTE OF OLDER MAN
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OLDER MAN: "I think it's more sex than anything, I'll be frank with you.
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And I think there's a trend of it, let's face it. I'll be very frank about
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it, I think that the... it's kind of a feather in their cap to get the young
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virgin."
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DEANNE: "And this advice from a concerned mother:"
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SILHOUETTE OF WOMAN
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EMOTIONAL OLDER WOMAN: "They never give up, and um, that they try and do
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whatever they can and do the right thing."
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DEANNE BACK IN NEWSROOM
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DEANNE: "And as we mentioned last night at 10, keep an eye on what's going
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on. The [missing word - sic] of the woman we spoke with there said her son
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would be up 24 hours a day, in the middle of the night, when everyone else was
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sleeping, communicating with these older people and it led to problems."
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END
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* Origin: Yellow Submarine - 415-481-2806 - CAPAL (1:161/69)
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