[nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience readingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!

[Tom Mills]

The trouble with most members of the federation is a complete always 
stubborn resistance to suggestions for change.  Every one on this list knows 
that I have questioned the fairness and management of the NFB News Line news 
paper Service.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wm. Ritchhart" <william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience 
readingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!


> Did I miss something?  Considering that the only thing I have seen about
> NFB Newsline recently was a post from the ACB leadership list
> encouraging the ACB membership to try to stop the Federal funding for
> NFB Newsline.
>
> The post made claims that any knowledgeable person would recognize as
> untrue.  In the normal ACB fashion, the post demonstrated that if NFB is
> creating something, the members of the ACB in general will be against
> it.
>
> One last thing.  I have a question for you Tom.  Why do you bother with
> us NFB folks?  I personally wouldn't waste my time with people whom I
> thought were so evil and always wrong.  It just seems that you could
> find a better use of your time doing something other than making angry
> post to an email list made up mostly of people who have beliefs that are
> totally different from your own.
>
>
>
> William
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Tom Mills
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:15 AM
> To: 4alabama at nfbnet.org
> Cc: nfblaw at nfbnet.org; alabama at acb.org; acb-l at acb.org;
> nfb-talk at nfbnet.org; acb-chat at acb.org
> Subject: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience reading
> thenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>
> I too wonder where the blind community is when they turn their backs on
> decency and respect for an unbiased library experience while reading the
>
> Alabama NFB News Line Service. The Federation is more interested in
> promoting its blind advocacy program; like filing frivolous law suits
> mostly
> for the sake of publicity and all the while knowing that most government
>
> agencies and big business concerns will quietly settle crappy law suits
> in
> the legal settlement mill. Remember I am talking about the National
> Federation of the Blind! The NFB News Line should never be used to
> promote
> NFB's advocacy positions and federation policies. Also, the Alabama
> chapter
> of the National Federation of the Blind should not be permitted to use
> the
> NFB News Line Service to advance the reputation of Mister J. Michael
> Jones,
> the Alabama affiliates state NFB president.  NFB President Doctor Marc
> Maurer has said that the NFB News Line Service has "A Special
> relationship
> with the news paper industry publishers participating on News Line." Let
> me
> tell you something all you girls and guys, that frightens me!  I believe
>
> that the NFB News Line Service should be held above any and all politics
> for
> the sake of the blind community and most of all to provide blind news
> paper
> readers an honest library experience.
>
>
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