[Newspoetry] No more middlemen!

[Editor-Within-Chief]

Is this related to the following report from the Onion?

U.S. Middlemen Demand Protection From Being Cut Out
WASHINGTON, DC—Some 20,000 members of the Association of American Middlemen 
marched on the National Mall Monday, demanding protection from such 
out-cutting shopping options as online purchasing, factory-direct catalogs, 
and outlet malls. "Each year in this country, thousands of hard-working 
middlemen are cut out," said Pete Hume, a Euclid, OH, waterbed retailer. 
"No one seems to care that our livelihood is being taken away from us." 
Hume said the AAM is eager to work with legislators to find alternate means 
of passing the savings on to you.

At 12:03 AM 6/26/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Good afternoon newspoets,
>
>After much persuasion on the part of my representative in the US, I've set 
>up my own email account.  The 'internet cafe' has never really taken off 
>here in Madrid, but one of my local bistros now has an old pc in the back 
>room.  It doesn't handle multimedia very well, but it's ok for text and 
>small image files.  So, from now on I'll be sending my despatches straight 
>to you, without the extra step of sending things by 'snailmail' to the 
>States.  I'll also be avoiding Porter's capricious and unsolicited editing 
>of my work (he's such a stick-in-the-mud).
>
>My host Javier is babbling something at me about tying up his phone line, 
>so I'll stop here.  More newspoems to come as the muse permits.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Newton 
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