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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hello</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=626042110-31032004>I'm touched by this </SPAN>plea.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=626042110-31032004>But isn't media watch as its name implies an info
resource rather than a forum? </SPAN>Like most list<SPAN
class=362571310-31032004> </SPAN>members <SPAN class=362571310-31032004>I
gues<SPAN class=626042110-31032004>s I</SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN
class=626042110-31032004>am </SPAN>in a branch of the media<SPAN
class=362571310-31032004> <SPAN class=626042110-31032004>-- I work for the
NUJ - </SPAN>and I regard the postings as of great value. I file them
and use them all the time<SPAN class=626042110-31032004>, if that's any
consolation to those that put them up. Occasionally I send things to David
Miller for him to post if he wishes - it does seem to me you need an editor for
these things - but I've never reacted to
anything.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=362571310-31032004><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=362571310-31032004><SPAN class=626042110-31032004>For one thing I
find bulletin boards that are filled with chit-chat rather irritating. For
another I have a vague view that we are all of like mind on these questions and
discussion would be superfluous. </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=362571310-31032004><SPAN class=626042110-31032004>Last week someone asked
for views of something on Rense. In the past I have looked at stuff on this
site and worried at what seemed to be a tinge of anti-semitism. So I read
last week's item closely but could not detect any traces. In fact I found it
quite sane - and thought - what is the point in replying to say
that?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=362571310-31032004><SPAN
class=626042110-31032004></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=362571310-31032004><SPAN class=626042110-31032004>I promise - if I see
something that really winds me up I will explose into
email.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=362571310-31032004><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=362571310-31032004><SPAN
class=626042110-31032004>TimG</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
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class=626042110-31032004></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> YvonneMarshall
[mailto:Brotherhoods@stevenston4.fsnet.co.uk]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 31 March 2004
00:32<BR><B>To:</B> media-watch@lists.stir.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Media-watch] (no subject)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear List-Members,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is a personal rant, no links
attached.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Traffic at this address has diminished of late,
and if it wasn't for the contributions of D Miller and Julie-anne Davis then
I'd have nothing - precisely nothing - to rant about. The fact that
submissions are still being made to media-watch is, in itself, encouraging,
but the paucity of comment and reaction to developments by those who have
subscribed to the list since its inception is depressing.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Who is it that takes the time to read this list,
to respond to postings, to stay up way-past their bedtimes when they could be
doing so many other things ? Who, in their right mind, would want to tap away
at a keyboard when other sensible beings are, if not asleep, partaking in
on-line orgies and quizzes ? What is the point of this ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, you. It must be you. You're reading this. If
you are as half-witted as me then you're trying, without really knowing why,
to create a 'debate' which does not happen elsewhere. You are perhaps sick and
tired of watching News-24 and the other 'non-stop' news channels which
promise so much but deliver so little. Maybe you're sick of being fed lies by
people who are employed, and work, in shifts, to deliver the scripts which are
fed to them by people who are, in turn, thoroughly sick of what they do but
have no 'realistic' option.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you have a mortgage ? Yes, so do I. Do you
have children ? Yes, so do I. The very same excuses are made by those who
dutifully script and deliver the often comically inane cobblers fed to us all
as 'news'. If this isn't a preoccupation of media-watch then it f***ing well
should be. "I was only doing what I was told..." Aye, right, sure thing, heard
it...nae excuse at all, at all.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, why do we do it ? Why do we send each
other bits and pieces of 'news' which don't appear on the telly or the radio ?
What is the point ? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What is it about this list that will make it
last, make it relevant, make it something worth recommending to friends etc
etc ? I don't know. Do you ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why is it that, even on an open forum like this,
people are unable, or unwilling, to state their own feelings about what's
happening in media rather than simply post links to the work of others ? Is
this forum not a legitimate arena for airing original, personal views
?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If so, where are they ? My name is not Yvonne
Marshall, as it appears in your Inbox, but that's because I haven't changed
the name since subscribing. My name is Ian Brotherhood and I am a real person,
and I have real beefs and rants about what's going on, much of it
media-related. What about everyone else ? What are the personal beefs, what is
the problem ? Why are you writing to this thing, this forum, but not
expressing yourself, not stating openly what YOU think ???</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What DO you think ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Speak up, speak your 'truth', whatever it is. I
know media-watch isn't a chat-room, but it would be nice, invigorating, to
hear the real voices behind the 'posters' - the reason why you post whatever
you do is perhaps - nay probably - as important as the content of your
references.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your attention, and best
regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ian Brotherhood</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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