[nfbwatlk] [Nfbf-l] anyone see the Home Makeover show?

[n7pzr]

I agree with Carl.

Paul Whipple n7pzr
Vice President Inland Empire Chapter
of the National Federation of the Blind
of Wa.
phone 509/362/3148
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Jarvis" <carjar at olypen.com>
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Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] [Nfbf-l] anyone see the Home Makeover show?


> Remember one other thing about this latest offering on TV.  It cuts 
> through
> all of the "politically correct" crap that most folks have learned to 
> cover
> their true feelings with.
> In TV Land, ratings are the bottom line.  Networks would sell their 
> mothers
> for a couple of points on the rating chart.
> They will more closely reflect the public attitudes toward the blind on 
> the
> screen, then they ever would reveal if you were to try to interview them.
> When the public attitudes change, ABC will no longer parade blind people
> before the public, because no one will find us pathetic or helpless any
> longer.
>
> Carl Jarvis
>
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