2017 A.D. Does NOT Refer To The Year

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This excerpt
is from an essay entitled
Sex sells—
but Fear and Anxiety sell more

The italicized initials
in the title of this page
represent what the news media
—be it print, TV, radio, or internet—
does on any given day:
There are, a minimum of 
2017 Anxieties Dispensed   

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Footnotes
This page echoes a quote from
the late, great journalist
Eric Sevareid

(1912-1992)

For longer than a decade,
Mr. Sevareid
was the news analyst on
CBS News with Walter Cronkite  

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