SUBJECT>Re: Heavens Gate/the media and other weird cults POSTER>Bombardier EMAIL>erskinta@email.uc.edu DATE>March 29, 1997 at 11:37:52 EMAILNOTICES>no PREVIOUS>1464 NEXT>1467 LINKNAME> LINKURL>

>all hard news stories have to answer key questions: who, what,
>when, where, how and why. the first five, in this case, got
>answered the first day. `why?' they're still working on. that
>accounts for `running the story into the ground.'

I believe that the 'why' part can be answered with two words: friggin loonies. And while this is obviously impolitic, I have yet to see this included as even a minor factor.