[blindlaw] National Federation of the Blind Partners with AARP Publications

[David Andrews]

Well, if you are concerned about this you should bring it up on the 
nfb-sponsors list, or with a NFB employee.

Dave

At 02:48 PM 1/24/2007, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>While I am of course excited about the new publications, I want to 
>mention my concern about NFB perhaps blending too much the 
>membership part of the organization with Newsline.
>
>  There is still that faction out there that does not want to be 
> associated with NFB, and this pres release does not help with that 
> problem.  I thought we had discussed this concept back at the first 
> Newsline seminar, and decided that Newsline needed to be kept quite 
> separate from the consumer organization side of things.
>
>I mention this only because I think it is best from a long term 
>standpoint to have as many people feel comfortable with using 
>Newsline, and every time the NFB consumer organization side of 
>things is mentioned, it reinforces the adverse reaction.  I just had 
>this come up last week, where someone did not want to be signed up 
>for Newsline until they were convinced that by signing up, he would 
>not be considered part of NFB.
>
>NFB is rightfully proud of Newsline, but I think the product stands 
>for itself, and there is no need in my opinion for mentioning NFB in 
>the Newsline materials.  The name alone of NFB Newsline should be 
>enough, and if I had my choice, I would just call it Newsline for the Blind.
>
>Again, I think our goal and long term best interest is to have 
>Newsline be considered as simply another library service, and not a 
>proprietary product of one organization.  There is still just too 
>much emotion out there, and we should not constantly be reminding 
>people that Newsline is somehow different.
>
>Sincerely,
>Timothy Ford

David Andrews and white cane Harry.