On 10/5/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Roger and/or Carl,Miriam,
How would you describe the situation when, for example, the teachers in a
school district strike for better pay, smaller classes, and more support
services for the students? How would you write the news story?
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Mental illness or terrorism?
As a matter of fact, I did once put that question to a member of a
television news staff. He was, and still is, an anchorman named Jack Kane.
He was hosting a radio call in show back in the nineties. After taking
several calls telling him that the news media had a left-wing bias I called
in saying that it had a right-wing bias and I used that
labor-demands-management-offers example to make my point. He was perplexed.
He did not see the bias. According to him that is exactly the way it it is.
Labor demands and management offers and if he reported it any other way he
would be reporting a falsehood.
On 10/5/2015 11:05 AM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Yup. Demand and offer. And we really want to believe we can getoffers?
objective reporting from our sworn opponents? What? Someone doesn't
agree that the keepers of all news are not our sworn opponents? Well,
here's a good little test. Go to your TV news room and ask why it is
that they report that Labor always demands, while Management always
offers? The news room will Offer reasons in their attempt to placate
your Demands.
Way back in the early 1960's when we were attempting to organize the
drapery factory where I worked, I understood the value of being in
control of the news releases. Our efforts to secure a more decent
wage were reported as, "angry demands", while the company offered to
negotiate some concessions. Those were the years when I learned that
the NLR did not represent the interests of Labor, and that unions such
as the Teamsters and the local restaurant workers union did not mind
selling out their members for a personal piece of the action.
I also learned that belonging to a union did not mean that members of
other unions would be allowed to support your requests for dignity and
a living wage. Unless their union leaders and your union leaders had
an understanding, you were ignored. In this way, unions could be
turned against other unions, while management sat by and waited to
harvest the benefits.
Anyway, we are drowning in a cesspool of lies, misrepresentation and
misdirection. And all the marbles are in the corner of the Ruling
Class.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/5/15, R. E. Driscoll Sr <llocsirdsr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Semanticism at its highest form!
On 10/4/2015 10:30 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender roger
bailey81 for DMARC) wrote:
By the way, here is another one to take note of. I just turned off
the local late news and one of the stories was that as of five this
morning the steelworkers union local that represents the employees
at the nearby casino will go on strike. It didn't take this news
story to make me notice this because I have been noticing it most of
my life, but it did remind me. That is, have you ever noticed that
in the bourgeois news media labor always demands and management always
On 10/4/2015 10:50 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Public relations, advertising, and our government is now using some
of the methods formerly only used to influence people in other
countries on its own citizens. People are easily manipulated. The
folks who do this have studied psychology and language and are
using what they learned as weapons of control. By the way, I think
those Seattle teachers were also making educational demands as well
as financial demands.
Miriam
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Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 9:18 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Mental illness or terrorism?
Exactly so, Roger. As you have pointed out so many times, words
have real power.
Following my recent medical procedure, an ablation of the heart, a
friend dropped by and commented that I was looking alert in a very
relaxed way. I took it as an attempt to let me know that I was
looking much improved.
After he took off, I turned to Cathy and beamed. "I'm a fast healer.
Sturdy Pioneer stock does it." Cathy said, "Alert in a relaxed way?
You have your pants unbuckled and your zipper down, and your hair
looks like a herd of ducks slept there all night."
Suddenly I had lost that feeling of well-being and told Cathy,
"Think I'll hobble to bed and take a nap".
Whether we admit it or not, we subconsciously respond to words.
Some words have broad definitions and can be used to guide our
thinking.
Some words have very different meanings for each of us, and must be
used carefully in order to be effective. Often the first verbal
impression sets a tone that is hard to overcome. A local TV
reporter put it this way. "Are Seattle teachers putting their own
demands ahead of their students well being? As teachers turn their
backs on their duties, harried parents scramble to find safe care
for their children."
No one said the teachers had no right in demanding a decent wage,
but I had the impression of a bunch of hard faced men and women
turning away from little children who are weeping and begging to be
taught.
And how many of us have been one of those harried parents? I put
in my time as a single parent.
Each of us responds to this news item from our own experiences. But
most of us will be feeling empathy for the harried parents and
worried over the safety of the children. The teachers become just
a bit more removed from our sympathies. And yet, many of these
teachers are parents. Some are single parents. They are struggling
to provide for their children, too.
But by the words chosen, and the emphasis placed on the harried
parents and the children's safety, these teachers become "things"
rather than equal members of the community.
Frankly, we have been conditioned on how to receive information.
Until we decide that it is our responsibility to think about what
is being fed us, and why, we will go along, being tugged this way
and that without ever understanding that we are being played like
puppets on a string.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/4/15, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have you ever noticed that when one of these mass shootings is
perpetrated by a white guy it is always explained as mental illness
and when the perpetrator is anyone else it is terrorism?
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