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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: The continuing devaluation of "news alerts" Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 12:43 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	BC-APNewsAlert,0023 NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Bus plunges off bridge in central India, 30 killed, officials say. AP-CS-11-24-02 1208EST
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: The continuing devaluation of "news alerts" Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 1:53 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	I would imagine that hardly qualifies as a brief in the local paper.<p>When I worked in Milwaukee, there was a guy who collected heds that said "Bus plunge." He had a cork board filled with them.<p>I don't know what happened to the guy. I think he was eaten by Jeffrey Dahmer.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: The continuing devaluation of "news alerts" Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 2:37 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	There's also www.busplunge.org.
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KfitzR	Post subject: Re: The continuing devaluation of "news alerts" Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 11:53 am
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 836 Location: New Brunswick, Canada	While in Provence this September with 20 other amateur watercolour painters, I was on a bus driving along the lip of the Verdon Gorge, 1000 feet down a sheer drop. Throughout the drive I kept seeing the headline in the Toronto Star - Bus Plunge in France kills 20 Torontonians.
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gullyj	Post subject: Re: The continuing devaluation of "news alerts" Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 10:41 am
Joined: Fri Jun 21, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 145 Location: Toronto	<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by KfitzR: I kept seeing the headline in the Toronto Star - Bus Plunge in France kills 20 Torontonians.[/QB]<hr></blockquote><p>On the cover of The Toronto Sun (tabloid) EN-GORGED 20 Monet-wannabes die in bus plunge<p>The Globe and Mail: French bus plunge harms Quebec-Ontario relations<p>And The National Post Chretien government blamed for bus plunge
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KfitzR	Post subject: Re: The continuing devaluation of "news alerts" Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 1:21 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 836 Location: New Brunswick, Canada	Very nice analysis of the city's English dailies.
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