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Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Nov 23 13:52:58 PST 2002



>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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