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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear List-Members,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is a personal rant, no links
attached.</FONT></DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello ?</FONT></DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What DO you think ?</FONT></DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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