Wet media elite???

[mw]

Typo? Web media elite?

Wet media also = art, like, acetate in contrast to dry media
http://www.ontask.net/portfolio/paintings/rotties.html

In the context web media elite seems more likely.


Quark Out
Lower Umpqua Addictive Conundrum Institute

<don't know much about wet media, but I know what I like>



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> In last Sunday's New York Times, Maureen Down said this:
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> "And there are Powell people: Brent Scowcroft, James Baker, Bush 41, Ken
> Duberstein, Richard Armitage, Richard Haass, the Foreign Service, Joe
Biden,
> Bob Woodward, the wet media elite, the planet."
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> Does anyone have any idea what the "wet media elite" might be?
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> Thanks.
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> Paul
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