Article 85275 of alt.folklore.urban:
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Net.loons

v140pxgt@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case) writes:
>He was pretty widely known in alt.revisionism; he used to post in a bunch of
>other groups-the usual suspects for crossposts from AR: alt.activism, 
>alt.conspiracy, alt.activism.d, alt.discrimination, alt.censorship.
talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.jewish...

From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: The Schmidling Controlled Media
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1992 06:14:34 GMT

It's painfully apparent to all who watch that Jack Schmidling
controls the media.  Not only has he been mentioned on the
CBS News, but he has had a letter printed in the July 16, 1990,
Chicago Tribune.  References to his fetish for weeds populate
United Press International's databases.  Anyone who says other-
wise is just contributing to the conspiracy.

But don't listen to me: the proof is in the pudding.

Hors d'oeuvres for everyone:

>From the American Political Network's Greenwire, June 16, 1991:

"     WEED WAR:  "The fight to preserve the natural environment
usually takes place in the great outdoors.  But now the battle
lines can be as close as your own backyard" (CBS' Ed Bradley).
Retired engineer  Jack Schmidling  filed suit against the city of
Chicago after receiving his third citation for allowing his weeds
to go unattended.  Schmidling:  "A weed in most people's
definition is a plant that they don't want ... They may be
unwanted to them, but I happen to like butterflies and insects"
(6/14).

Note how CBS knew to send Ed Bradley, rather than offend
Schmidling's sensibilities with the well-known Jewi-- er, I
mean, Zionist journalist Mike Wallace.

But it doesn't stop there... it's worse, much worse.
The September/October 1991 issue of the award-winning
"Garbage" magazine knuckled under to the Schmidling juggernaut,
and granted him free advertising under the rubric of a "review"
by renowned journalist Hannah Holmes on page 64.  I tried to
call up Garbage magazine to find out why they gave in, but when
I telephoned them, *no one answered*!  Just further proof of how
deep the conspiracy goes.

But see for yourself:

"HEADLINE: Stormy Compost, Earthy Games, Backyard Critters

Backyard Safari

   Video by  Jack Schmidling  Productions, 5401 Moody, Chicago, IL 60630.  $ 32.

   This video documents a backyard restoration project that includes a tiny
prairie, a pond, and wildlife-oriented plantings.  If Mia Amato's "Backyard
Restoration" (March/April '91) made you want to trade in your turf grass for
something more interesting, here's how.

   The production is a bit amateurish, and the narration is comically low key.
Producer/photographer/narrator  Jack Schmidling  sounds like he stayed up all
night filming nocturnal bugs.  But as the footage illustrates the step-by-step
transformation of the mid-sized backyard, you'll find plenty of helpful
information buried under that Midwest monotone.  Besides the pond and the
prairie, much attention is paid to the particular likes and dislikes of
prospective tenants, from hydra and leopard frogs to goldfinches, crows, and
rabbits.

   The labor (Jack's cheerful wife Marilyn appears to do most of it) is
interspersed with fun shots of nature in action.  The sincerity behind the
hard-won pictures will make you feel involved in a way a slick National
Geographic special never could.  After seeing the work needed to attract nature
to the suburbs, you watch as bold, new urbanites flutter, crawl, and hop into
the new habitat.  Some high points: the life cycle of a monarch butterfly,
squabbling mice, and time-lapse photography of self-destructing mushrooms."

Note the price of the video: $32.  JS, Jack Schmidling's initials, are
the tenth and nineteenth letters of the alphabet, respectively.  And
"arf", his code name, has three letters.  10+19+3 = 32.  Coincidence?
I think not.

All in all, Jack Schmidling has *nine* entries on a major computer
news service database that date after January 1, 1990.  Me, I've
only had three entries in my entire life.  That's a three to one
ratio.  Just further evidence of the Schmidling-controlled media.
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