[nfb-talk] Blind people deserve alibraryexperiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!

Sat Jul 22 14:23:01 CDT 2006

For goodness sake since when did the members of the National Federation of 
the Blind begin to use your rival blind group the American Council of the 
Blind as a standard of comparison and excellence?  The NFB has not proven 
itself worthy to be the sole organization in the world I know of that 
Distributes over two hundred main stream daily and weekly news papers. With 
that responsibility comes an enormous need remain above any suspicion of 
fishing and grabbing subscribers from News Line for other purposes. The 
National Federation has had a long history accusing other organizations in 
the blind community of that!    ---- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Aldrich" <jkaldrich at qwest.net>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve 
alibraryexperiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!

> I'm amazed that there should be such flack about Newsline which is 
> providing
> a most valuable service and Newsline  is finding new ways to distribute 
> the
> newspapers on their service.  Maybe I should say our service?  Nothing is
> said about ACB Radio when the "dj's" on their service aren't being paid to
> program the music which is played.  I'm not saying that people aren't 
> having
> fun being a DJ, but there is no compensation other than one's personal
> satisfaction for doing what they do.  That's okay I guess but how nice it
> would be if this daily or weekly broadcasting by various individuals could
> translate into a paying job.  I've heard nothing about this!  Might not 
> that
> be a kind of scandal?
>
> I figure it this way!  If the NFB is sponsoring the service, it has a 
> right
> to promote what it will.  ACB Radio does so and are they as "wrong" for
> doing so?  I doubt it!  Therefore, I'd conclude that the NFB is providing 
> a
> most useful resource for us to be better participants in our communities.
> How is ACB Radio helping people be more involved with their communities?
> I'd say hats off to Newsline, a good program for all regardless of which
> organization they have joined.  If ACB put money towards Newsline which is
> available to anyone with a phone, then maybe they could promote what they
> would wish to promote.  Money talks!  In contrast, people need a computer 
> to
> listen to ACB Radio unless they have some kind of cell phone arrangement 
> or
> land line arrangement to access their programming.  Newsline is a program 
> I
> don't have a problem supporting.
>
> Jim Aldrich
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>;
> <william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 9:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a
> libraryexperiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>
>
>> Dear Mr. Mills,
>> "GET A LIFE."
>>
>> David Evans
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tom Mills" <tmills79 at bellsouth.net>
>> To: <william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>; "NFB Talk Mailing List"
>> <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:46 AM
>> 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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