--- nablusos108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], bob_brigante > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], > "nablusos108" <nablusos108@> > > wrote: > > > This little thing, changing a word here and > there in a silly > article, > > > and all the TM-haters goes bananas. They seem to > become more and > more > > > desperate as the success from the Invincible > America course grows > > > stronger. > > > > > > There is a great purification going on > worldwide, and the TM- > haters > > > are just in the middle of it. > > > > > > > ************** > > > > It is because I am not a TM-hater that I object to > the pointless > > rewriting of an article in order to give TMers a > distorted view of > what > > is going on in the press. This sort of suppression > of actual facts > is > > typical of weak regimes, like North Korea and > other Communist or > 3rd > > world dictatorships. > > > > The WP article was read by lots of people (their > print Sunday > edition > > goes to one million, plus however many read their > free web > edition). > > The invincibleamerica.org site is read by a > handful of TMers. So > > editing out material that the TM PR guys found > objectionable has no > > effect on the public, but is intended merely to > make TMers feel > good > > about what a great job they are doing spreading > good news about TM. > > This false and self-congratulatory attitude does > the TMO no good, > and > > sooner or later, when these Scientology-like > gimmicks become well- > known > > in the media world, TM PR efforts will be derided, > just as Stalin's > > airbrushing of photos to eliminate enemies. > > > > Logical and adult people would have written a > letter to the editor > of > > the WP explaining what TM is (certainly not a > breath-control > technique > > as described in the article) and ignored mentions > of homeopathic > > remedies,etc. What the TMO gets instead of logical > and adult is Bob > > Roth's pathetic lying... > > Agreed. My point is only that it is not much of a > big deal. This > fellow makes a small mistake in his eagerness and > them he apologies. > Why all this agitation over a small thing ? Journalistic ethics. You can't change writing, in this context, without indicating that a change has been made and noting your change from the original work. Its so the reader knows who wrote what. In this case the TMO did not like something about the original piece and changed it without noting they had changed it. If you make a change in someone elses writing and then present the writing as if the change has not been made, that is manipulation. > > > > > 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 > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
