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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

No, I don't pay, but there are categories that one can choose and I most 
certainly do not have sporting news on the list- I might be able to 
understand it if the sports were say, of an international nature, like a 
Formula One race result<G>, or a World Cup game, or even an Olympic 
story, but US Collegiate Basketball doesn't have a place there...sorry.
I have alerts based on keywords, like volcano, rioting, global warming, 
genetically modified, Finland, etc...and when CNN files a story 
mentioning any of the above, I get the alert via my email.  I have quite 
a few alerts, and at times, have even more if I want to follow a 
breaking story like, say, an Ebola outbreak.  You can customize them and 
allow CNN to do your searching for you.  And just so everyone knows, I 
do read more than the ever so biased CNN...
But you do have me wondering what was it about that game that somehow 
sparked a hit for an alert..there's a glitch somewhere, maybe..

B

Gene GeRue wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2008, at 11:20 AM, EarthNSky wrote:
>
> > Well, I like my sports, too, BUT when you sign up for world breaking
> > news updates, seeing a basketball story come through with priority  
> > tells
> > me that without any uncertainty, the media has lost the sense of  
> > what is
> > truly important, or maybe, probably, they have so successfully  
> > dumbed us
> > down to the point where Gass's quote applies to almost everyone....   
> > If
> > that was your point in the quote, then sorry to be a few steps behind.
>
> Bev, does "you sign up" mean that you pay for certain types of news?  
> If so, what is the service, and do they offer options?


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