Liza
> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:52:58 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Contact Information
>
>> 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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