Adolf Hitler and Franklin Roosevelt used radio to spread very different messages, proving that powerful new media have the potential for evil or for good. That is a lesson Prodigy Services is learning all over again. The home- computer network, which IBM and Sears jointly operate, offers electronic bulletin boards on which subscribers can exchange typewritten comments. Last week the Anti-Defamation League, a national monitor of hate groups, disclosed that Prodigy boards are being used to promote anti-Semitic propaganda. Messages have appeared contending, among other things, that the murder of millions during the Holocaust is "fantasy and exaggeration." Prodigy argues that...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
