[stylist] censorship

[Judith Bron]

Someone is editing from the days of the cave man or has nothing better to 
do.  Do you want to be involved in this?  They want articles from the older 
adult population, but insist on rewriting what they have to say.  Sounds 
pretty wierd.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] censorship


> The commissioner is a woman.   I've never met her, but I plan to correct
> that oversight.
> The town doesn't give a damn what else I edit, and know nothing about me.
> The problem isn't with me, I assure you.   But I don't want to do this at
> all without some kind of clue as to what they find offensive.   Strange. 
> I
> don't find the word Hershey offensive, and that's one they changed.
> Lori
>
> In a message dated 5/6/09 9:53:56 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:
>
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>> How old is this lady? Perhaps you can tell her (or is it him?) that you
>> edit a magazine for blind folks. As an editor you learned long ago that
>> if
>> someone is going to donate their time to volunteer to write an article 
>> you
>> have to operate under strict guidelines so that your authors don't find
>> themselves wasting their time. Tell her (him?) that you afford this
>> courtesy to the people who submit articles to your magazine. Why should
>> you
>> be treated by someone else in a way that is unacceptable to you?
>> ----- Original Message -----
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