[Boatanchors] Re The Media

[jeremy-ca]

I'll echo "What does this have to do with Boatanchors?"

Lets get off the soapboxes.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Nord" <chnord at comcast.net>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Re The Media


> The statement was not made by someone from NPR,   "...the (NPR) announcer 
> was commenting on  Paul Reynolds" (a British reporter).  According to Mr. 
> Reynolds, the President  was "Acting like a blind man in a room full of 
> deaf
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Jim Wilhite" <w5jo at brightok.net>
>> My question is why try to embarrass either blind people or
>> the President.  I guess the answer is, Your Tax Dollars at
>> Work.  If it were not for NPR this jerk probably would be a
>> reporter for the Point Barrow, AK newspaper.
>>
>> Jim/W5JO
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
>> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:06 PM
>> Subject: [Boatanchors] Re The Media
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > On NPR a few minutes ago the announcer was commenting on
>> > Paul Reynolds. According to Mr. Reynolds, the President
>> > was "Acting like a blind man in a room full of deaf
>> > people."
>> >
>> > Now why is it perfectly alright to use such a description
>> > of a blind person that makes them out to be clumsy
>> > stumbling oafs and demeans the deaf as being ignorant of
>> > what is going on around them?
>>
>>
>> > Why do these elected officials, radio and TV announcers,
>> > newspaper and magazine writers and other people get away
>> > with it? >
>>
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