[Nfbf-l] Access to Newspapers and Other Media

[Kirk]

We that support Newsline also agree that it is not an end all to news 
reading! It is just one method to stay up to date on current affairs either 
at home, or in a mobile mode. There really isn't any controversy that I can 
see from this wonderful service. For many of the alternate topics you 
mention in your comments I have noticed through the years of working with 
seniors,they don't have the intterest to many them like Newsline does 
however. Many of the elderly don't own or have an interest to use computers 
or anything that resembles one for their reading pleasure. This is why we 
are, as you state, just another source to read the information that 
interests individual! Kirk



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 2:25 PM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] Access to Newspapers and Other Media


Some people here seem to portray things as if we support NFB
Newsline, or we support the Internet and other things.  They seem to
be either for or against NFB Newsline to the exclusion of everything else.

I would like to suggest that sighted persons have access to their
media in a variety of ways.  They can buy and read paper magazines or
newspapers, get them on-line, via smart phones, iPads, etc., go to
the Library and read, subscribe for home delivery, read on Kindle or
other device etc.

Blind persons should have a variety of access methods as well.  There
just isn't one size fits all, and you might use different methods at
different times during the day.  There are radio reading services for
some, NFB Newsline for others, and computers, iPhones, and the rest
for still others.  And ... each of us may use multiple access
points.  NFB Newsline for example can be accessed via the phone, via
a computer or phone with web browsing, via the Stream or other device etc.

So, I don't think we support one method to the exclusion of others.

Personally I find NFB Newsline to be invaluable.  I download daily
onto my Stream, and read on the bus.  I don't have an iPhone, and it
would be difficult for me to do this in other ways.

This doesn't need to be a controversial or fractious issue.

David Andrews


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