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Article #3716Re: More Progressive Voices Are Needed
From: tracey12
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 06:20
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 06:20
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--------------B7D04BA8070579E1927492C3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Theres simply no market for communism, socialism. globalism, and "progressive" thinking/ Political Correctness outside the UT classroom/pulpit of liberalism. If you want to preach anti-US hogwash, become a marxist member of UT. There, you'll be fully accepted. In the real world, marxism is dead. ComeInPeace wrote: > Julio Noboa, San Antonio Express-News, 4/6/03 > http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=1160&xlc=974385 > > During my nine years as a columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, I > have covered a wide variety of topics related to issues of justice, peace > and equity, especially as they impact people of color here and abroad. My > column, I've been recently informed, has been discontinued. > > It was just over a year ago that a heated controversy erupted over my > columns, mostly those critical of U.S. and Israeli policy toward > Palestinians. A prominent rabbi accused me of anti-semitism and disparaged > my writings in a sermon, demanding I be terminated for, among other > reasons, suggesting that certain constituencies have more media power than > others in our nation. > > At that time, the Express-News to their credit, refused to terminate my > column, citing not only freedom of the press, but also explaining that to > do so would prove that constituency does indeed have more media power. > > Now, as a response to my last two articles, "Jenin survivors ending the > silence" (March 1); and "Israel gets billions while Americans tighten > belts" (March 15), the editors confronted me with the charge that I relied > too heavily on one source. > > That, according to them, is grounds for terminating my column. It's > important to note that there were few or no questions regarding the truth > or the facts as I presented them, nor about the credibility of the source > itself. Neither were there any charges of plagiarism. > > In response I submitted copies to the editors of the various sources I had > consulted for both articles, including the Christian Science Monitor, the > Washington Times, Human Rights Watch, the U.N. Report on Jenin, as well as > The Independent, a respected British newspaper. --------------B7D04BA8070579E1927492C3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <br>Theres simply no market for communism, socialism. globalism, and "progressive" thinking/ Political Correctness outside the UT classroom/pulpit of liberalism. <p>If you want to preach anti-US hogwash, become a marxist member of UT. <br>There, you'll be fully accepted. <p>In the real world, marxism is dead. <br> <br> <br> <p>ComeInPeace wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Julio Noboa, San Antonio Express-News, 4/6/03 <br><a href="http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=1160&xlc=974385">http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=1160&xlc=974385</a> <p>During my nine years as a columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, I <br>have covered a wide variety of topics related to issues of justice, peace <br>and equity, especially as they impact people of color here and abroad. My <br>column, I've been recently informed, has been discontinued. <p>It was just over a year ago that a heated controversy erupted over my <br>columns, mostly those critical of U.S. and Israeli policy toward <br>Palestinians. A prominent rabbi accused me of anti-semitism and disparaged <br>my writings in a sermon, demanding I be terminated for, among other <br>reasons, suggesting that certain constituencies have more media power than <br>others in our nation. <p>At that time, the Express-News to their credit, refused to terminate my <br>column, citing not only freedom of the press, but also explaining that to <br>do so would prove that constituency does indeed have more media power. <p>Now, as a response to my last two articles, "Jenin survivors ending the <br>silence" (March 1); and "Israel gets billions while Americans tighten <br>belts" (March 15), the editors confronted me with the charge that I relied <br>too heavily on one source. <p>That, according to them, is grounds for terminating my column. It's <br>important to note that there were few or no questions regarding the truth <br>or the facts as I presented them, nor about the credibility of the source <br>itself. Neither were there any charges of plagiarism. <p>In response I submitted copies to the editors of the various sources I had <br>consulted for both articles, including the Christian Science Monitor, the <br>Washington Times, Human Rights Watch, the U.N. Report on Jenin, as well as <br>The Independent, a respected British newspaper.</blockquote> </html> --------------B7D04BA8070579E1927492C3--
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