Is After Effects the right software for the task?

Hi there,
Excuse me if I have posted this in the wrong place but I am after a little help with some video graphics I would like to create. Its nothing staggering, but I am not quite sure how to achive.
What I want to create is text that appears on the screen like a telex message with a flashing cursor and a sound sample when its being displayed. I have seen it many times on films stating a time, location, and breif proceeding a film or portion of a film. I think this would be beneficial to the footage I am tring to create rather than just using the fade to black & a title in Premier.
Thanks in advance
Andy

Hi guys,
Just want to say thanks guys for replying to this thread. Great to know there are people out there that can offer a hand .
I did consult a tutorial before I set to work which was really helpfull whick in essance is pretty much what this tutorial shows:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7c9f a.html
I added a computer monitor as the background in AE and also a shape layer with a square the same colour as the text at each point where the text stops to act as a cursor (opacity for that item was turned on and off to give the impression of it flashing). A glow modifier was also added to the text and the cursor along with a deformation modifier to simulate the curvature of the screen

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