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

[Hope Hein]

I have reviewed the newspapers from NFB Newsline and have read several downloaded through Bookshare. I read one paper from Florida and another from PA in the same sitting. I did not have to travel to Florida to get that paper. If I had more time I could read the papers from all of the participating states. 

Please do not put the NFB down. I have been a member of the NFB of PA for a little over one year. I attended my first convention in over 20 years this year and was truly inspired. The NFB members that I know and read about are not stubborn; that is a negative term, they are determined! Determined to educate blind and sighted persons about the true meaning of blindness. Determined to train blind persons so that they can obtain gainful employment just like their sighted colleagues. Determined that the blind should have access to books, news, the internet, as well as user-friendly technology. The leaders of the NFB think big. If that is stubborn then let stubbornness reign.

As the inch worm burrows his way to his destination inch by inch the NFB will break down societal barriers one by one to change what it means to be blind.
Hope   

-----Original Message-----
.From: "Tom Mills"<tmills79 at bellsouth.net>
.Sent: 7/22/06 1:46:15 AM
.To: "william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net"<william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>, "NFB Talk Mailing List"<nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
.Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
.
.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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