Posted by noamswampy
on November 2, 2009, 2:35 pm, in reply to "Re: Would anyone here want to write for a paper that continually told us that black people are... "
Hi Walter.
JK's excellent question was:
"Would anyone here want to write for a paper that continually told us that black people are inferior to white people? (Then)....why would anyone want to write for a paper that continually tells us that Britain and America are committed to spreading peace and democracy"
Your reply was:
"Well not if it was to debate the price of butter. But maybe, if it was to call for a conference to challenge racism"
But, 'debating the price of butter' is exactly what DW (and Monbiot and Fisk and Milne etc) are doing (metaphorically speaking) when they deliberately avoid the subject of the MSM's own lies and spin.
Best,
N.
--Previous Message--
: Well not if it was to debate the price of
: butter. But maybe, if it was to call for a
: conference to challenge racism, in the
: climate of your fictitious example.
:
: It seems extreme to think only of the paper,
: as if you're only writing to do them a
: favour. I think the decision also depends
: who is being written to, and what is the
: message.
:
: The key question is surely: Is the
: (inevitable) compromise worthwhile?
:
: I think David has clearly spelled out his
: reasoning. He has recognized that some
: compromise would be necessary, reckoned he
: could still produce a message that was
: worthwhile, and factored in the number of
: people that would probably be reached,
: deciding presumably that the latter was the
: more weighty consideration. (Or some such
: balancing process, anyway.)
:
: The more-radical-than-thou criticism is
: probably too one-dimensional to take us much
: further forward, other than to 'separate the
: pure from the practical'.
:
: Walter
:
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