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<P><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=3></FONT><STRONG>Who reads this stuff you ask? Well,people like me I suppose, & yes, I am guilty of not posting anything.I always have the presumption that if I have read something so will the people in internet land.Perhaps I am wrong.Why do I read this stuff? Very good question, that.My life was a lot easier before I took the hump with the way the world was shaping up, and hey, it's only some arabs getting killed, isn't it?Why should I care?</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Well, care I do, & if I can scour these hallowed pages & suchlike to see the truth, & pass it on to people who are intrested enough, so be it.Now, when I see a statue being pulled down, or the picture of a 'suicide bomber', who happens to have been 'conviniently' caught on camera, I know that the real story will come out.18 months ago, I would have believed what the press told me.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>So dont be disheartened, I am sure there are lots of punters out there that are doing the same as me, you just arent getting the feedback to realise it.</STRONG><BR><BR></P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: "YvonneMarshall" <Brotherhoods@stevenston4.fsnet.co.uk>
<DIV></DIV>>To: <media-watch@lists.stir.ac.uk>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: [Media-watch] (no subject)
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:32:25 +0100
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<DIV></DIV>>Dear List-Members,
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<DIV></DIV>>This is a personal rant, no links attached.
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<DIV></DIV>>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.
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<DIV></DIV>>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 ?
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<DIV></DIV>>Hello ?
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<DIV></DIV>>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.
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<DIV></DIV>>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.
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<DIV></DIV>>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 ?
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<DIV></DIV>>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 ?
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<DIV></DIV>>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 ?
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<DIV></DIV>>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 ???
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<DIV></DIV>>What DO you think ?
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<DIV></DIV>>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.
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<DIV></DIV>>Thanks for your attention, and best regards,
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<DIV></DIV>>Ian Brotherhood
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