Just to balance the other shit you might have heard here, I'll say what I said before -- I think you wrote a balanced and extremely fair op-ed piece. I wish other articles about non- mainstream spirituality could be a tenth as fair.
Unc - Barry Wright --- In [email protected], "gable52556" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm the author of the column in Thursday's Ledger. > > Disclaimer: Everything I'm posting here is my own opinion, not > that of my employer. > > I've learned a few interesting things about myself in the past few > days. Apparently I'm a "longtime Amma devotee" who is > engaged in some kind of conspiracy with Rick Archer. > > To address the first point, I've covered Amma's visit to Mount > Pleasant for the past two years. If that makes me a devotee, > then I guess I'm a TM devotee as well, because I've spent much > more time at M.U.M. events in the past three years. > > To address the second point, I've met Rick Archer in person > maybe four or five times. And, no, he did not suggest this > column to me. > > I do read FairfieldLife on a regular basis, just as I also read > Fairfield Community Kiosk and quite a few bulletin boards in > town. It's part of the process of keeping abreast of what's going > on. Because of this, I've been aware of this issue for some time. > > A few people expressed interest in knowing how the column > came about. At the community meeting hosted last summer by > John Hagelin at the Fairfield Public Library, it became clear to > me that the university's policy toward the "lady saints," as one > audience member called them, was a topic of great interest to > many people in town. That was the genesis of the column. > > As Mark Meredith pointed out, the piece was an opinion column, > not a news article. It it had been a news story, I obviously would > have left my own thoughts out of it. As it stands, any opinions > which are directly attributed to Rick Archer, Craig Pearson, etc., > are their own. Any opinions which are not attributed are mine. > They are the product of three years of observing life in Fairfield. > > One person said the column should have included interviews > with people other than university officials who are happy with the > TM movement. I'd like to draw an analogy here. When you read > a story about something the president has done, typically the > reporter will quote the president, a few of his aides, and a few > critics from the Democratic side of the aisle. That way, the > reporter tells both sides of the story. Should every reporter who > writes a story about the president seek out a half-dozen satisfied > Republicans to talk about what a great job they think he's doing? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
