[Nfbf-l] Fw: Time to callyourFlorida HouseRepresentative!Another Service for the Blindmaybe going bythe Wayside.

[Joanne]

In my opinion, The radio reading service and the Newsline are two different 
forms of communications.  Most people are interested in their local news and 
adds.  Some like to know the news in their home town, that's fine.   But the 
most important and practical way of listening to the news is by radio 
instead of having the phone on your ear for how long.   It would be a 
tragedy to discontinue the Radio Reading Service.   Just like newspaper, TV, 
radio, Internet, Newsline, Talking Books, each of these have their place in 
communications.
After all is this not the land of choice?  Haven't the blind fought for 
choice?  Why narrow choice down to one.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFB of Florida Listserv" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Fw: Time to callyourFlorida 
HouseRepresentative!Another Service for the Blindmaybe going bythe Wayside.


:
: Dear Jody,
:
: Newsline can provide the Hurricane Preparedness manual on its channel
: features, as well as many other bits of info and it is available 24 hours 
a
: day and from anywhere.
: Most seniors are scared of technology and are slow to embrace it, but many
: do.
: Seniors are the fastest rising group in the use of the internet and 
e-mail.
: Once they get over their fear they love it.
: I see more and more seniors carrying cell phones today where many would 
not
: do it a few years ago.  It is mostly because they know other seniors who
: carry them now and they don't want to be left out.
: New technology does one of three things.  It falls on its face and no one
: uses it as expected.  It totally replaces and old technology completely,
: such as the way the car replaced the horse.  The last is that a new
: technology can enhance or even revolutionize and older technology the way
: the telegraph revolutionized the railroads.
: Newsline could have done that for the Radio Reading Service, but they 
could
: not see the potential that being part of newsline would have given them.
: They could have "streamed" their broadcast through the channels features 
and
: increased The range of the Radio Reading Service.  The Radio Reading 
Service
: station range is very limited and mostly local at best.  Newsline has the
: ability to reach many more people and could have partnered with them to
: enhance both services.
:
: David Evans, NFBF
: ----- Original Message ----- 
: From: "Jody W. Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
: To: "NFB of Florida Listserv" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
: Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 4:36 PM
: Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Fw: Time to call yourFlorida
: HouseRepresentative!Another Service for the Blind maybe going bythe 
Wayside.
:
:
: > Hello Marion,
: >
: > I can't even get my elderly mother to use voice mail so Newsline would 
be
: > way beyond her.
: >
: > Another good reason to keep RRS around is for hurricane preparedness and
: > other emergencies.
: >
: > JODY
: >
: >
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