[stylist] censorship

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Exactly!  Polarization in both directions is way too rampant, and it is a
real danger, since a functional democracy depends on a well-educated and
informed public.  Every now and then, I run around tearing my  hair out
because I want some news and can't find a lick of journalism anywhere.
Could someone just please tell me what happened?  Then I can figure out what
to think and feel about it, or I will consult an editorialist for added
opinion.

I especially love those days when one can flip through news channels and
consult on-line papers only to discover that all the reporting is about what
someone is saying about what someone said and what someone else thinks about
it, then you hear the clip of what was said and it doesn't even relate to
what they're talking about even though the keep saying that they are talking
about that clip...  Even the few reports that come close to the facts of
whatever it is the hoopla is about are so heavily weighted in phrasing and
connotation that it can only be described as propaganda.  Sometime recently,
I heard a simple statement of observable, documented fact called propaganda.

What the solution is, I don't know.  Barking at the TV has not seemed to
solve the problem.  /smile/  The forces at work really go beyond political
correctness and political polarization to commercialism, a far more potent
driving force than anything so ephemeral as ideology, and we all know what
people can do for ideology.

I'm trying to figure out a way to use my own writing, since it looks like
that's going to be my career focus, to address that issue, as well.  Using
the internet, of course.  That's the wild card these days.  Nobody controls
it, no matter how much they want to, and there are ways to bypass the
commercialized parts of it and just say what you have to say so that people
can judge for themselves!

Honestly, I'm not a journalist.  I would like to be able to find out what's
going on outside my own little world by consulting a journalist.  I am much
too lazy to need to research the drivel they pass off as journalism these
days.

Grumble, grumble, rant, rave...

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Judith Bron
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:51 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] censorship

Again, our freedom of speech is being regulated by political correctness. 
Even the best publications in this country publish authors of diverse 
opinions.  Since when did political correctness become mandatory speech?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] censorship


Whew.   Now that is strange!
Lori
In a message dated 5/10/09 8:32:49 PM, n6yr at sunflower.com writes:


> this bizarreness wasn't even relevant to an open discussion of
> support or opposition for abortion. literally what the newspaper
> honchoes said was that someone with a prolife record, someone who has
> blogged or written prolife works, can't even sell them an article
> about fishing, or some other totally unrelated subject!
> yes, very weird.
> jc
>
>




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