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_______________ THE ROAD TO HALE BY JONATHAN BRODER AND MURRAY WAAS (03/17/98)

I just finished "The Road to Hale" exposé and was relieved and frightened.
I recently moved from a small suburb called Greensburg, 50 miles from Pittsburgh. We have a local conservative newspaper called the Tribune Review there that broke the Vince Foster murder conspiracy story along with many offshoot stories about numerous "scandals" in the Clinton camp, namely Whitewater-related matters. This extremely conservative, openly biased paper is the only mass publication in Westmoreland County -- a county that is 75 percent registered Democrats and usually a Pennsylvania stronghold for the Democratic party.
It was extremely amusing to locals that our paper was being used as a propaganda sheet against President Clinton, but day after day more and more negative, breaking news was on the front page exposing so-called conspiracies and cover-ups involving the president of the United States. The stories were so popular that this little paper expanded into the big city of Pittsburgh and most of the surrounding counties. They wanted to be sure everyone could read these stories of corruption, so they undercut the long established paper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Guess who owned that little paper? Richard Mellon Scaife! This man owns numerous publications, all of which he uses to spread these lies and subtly brainwash good people. When you read something over and over, it begins to seem like the truth. This man seems to be running his own conspiracy school. I'm very glad to see that he is being exposed. Please continue to pursue his link to these right-wing, tax exempt organizations.
-- Jean Gongaware

_______________ SALON'S RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY WATCH

I am pleased with the way you're covering the Clinton affair. Your coverage is slanted in his favor but since everyone else seems to be slanted the other way, it's a refreshing way to "balance the interests," as Vincent Bugliosi put it.
I do, however, have one question: What's being done with the information? I notice that many of your articles are "exclusive" to you. Congratulations on being the first to "get the dirt," but is it of any use? And if so, are you making it available to those who may use it? No matter how popular Salon is, as a Web-based magazine, you're only reaching a limited portion of the population, so it isn't realistic to expect to be able to sway public opinion in any drastic manner. Where is this information going after it's published by you?
-- Wilson Fowlie
SALON | March 19, 1998

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_______________ THE ROAD TO HALE BY JONATHAN BRODER AND MURRAY WAAS (03/17/98)
	I just finished "The Road to Hale" exposé and was relieved and frightened. I recently moved from a small suburb called Greensburg, 50 miles from Pittsburgh. We have a local conservative newspaper called the Tribune Review there that broke the Vince Foster murder conspiracy story along with many offshoot stories about numerous "scandals" in the Clinton camp, namely Whitewater-related matters. This extremely conservative, openly biased paper is the only mass publication in Westmoreland County -- a county that is 75 percent registered Democrats and usually a Pennsylvania stronghold for the Democratic party. It was extremely amusing to locals that our paper was being used as a propaganda sheet against President Clinton, but day after day more and more negative, breaking news was on the front page exposing so-called conspiracies and cover-ups involving the president of the United States. The stories were so popular that this little paper expanded into the big city of Pittsburgh and most of the surrounding counties. They wanted to be sure everyone could read these stories of corruption, so they undercut the long established paper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Guess who owned that little paper? Richard Mellon Scaife! This man owns numerous publications, all of which he uses to spread these lies and subtly brainwash good people. When you read something over and over, it begins to seem like the truth. This man seems to be running his own conspiracy school. I'm very glad to see that he is being exposed. Please continue to pursue his link to these right-wing, tax exempt organizations. -- Jean Gongaware
_______________ SALON'S RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY WATCH
	I am pleased with the way you're covering the Clinton affair. Your coverage is slanted in his favor but since everyone else seems to be slanted the other way, it's a refreshing way to "balance the interests," as Vincent Bugliosi put it. I do, however, have one question: What's being done with the information? I notice that many of your articles are "exclusive" to you. Congratulations on being the first to "get the dirt," but is it of any use? And if so, are you making it available to those who may use it? No matter how popular Salon is, as a Web-based magazine, you're only reaching a limited portion of the population, so it isn't realistic to expect to be able to sway public opinion in any drastic manner. Where is this information going after it's published by you? -- Wilson Fowlie SALON \| March 19, 1998