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[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
>
>>  You are equating activists with Washington insiders who actually
>>  manufacture at least two thirds (according to the video _Project
>>  Censored: Is the Press Really Free?_,
>>   <http://www.projectcensored.org/store.html>) of the news.  That's
>>  Orwellian.
>
>Nope, just the mini- neo-politburo's prescriptions of what Liza and
>others are supposed to write.
>
>Actually, Orwell, in "Through A Glass, Rosily", explicitly attacked the
>calls for conformity that come in the form of charges of "giving
>ammunition to the enemy", which you rely upon.
>
>-- Shane

Where did I say that "movement journalists" should conform to "the 
mini-neo-politburo's prescriptions" because otherwise they give 
"ammunition to the enemy"?  Produce evidence that I said so, or else 
desist from libel and slander.

The passage you quoted in your Orwellian response to me was as follows:

At 8:14 PM -0500 11/22/02, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>The point that I wish to make here is that criticism within the 
>movement is and should be a two-way street.  "Movement journalists" 
>should be encouraged to criticize, fairly and accurately, the 
>shortcomings of the social movement in which they take part; 
>organizers and activists in the movement on which "movement 
>journalists" comment, in turn, should be encouraged to criticize 
>their articles, again fairly and accurately.  Only then can both 
>grow.

To which Liza responded:

At 1:30 PM -0500 11/23/02, Liza Featherstone wrote:
>This I definitely agree with.
>
>Liza

What's so objectionable about that in your view?
-- 
Yoshie

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