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packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:

> The idea that only money drives the press is a short-circuit
> that keeps people blissfully ignorant of the extent to which they
> are being manipulated -- or educated, depending on your point of
> view -- by what appears to be nothing more than a series of news
> reports. 
> 
> How did Negroes become blacks? How did vagrants become the 
> homeless? Through a second-order agea on the part of editors
> that had nothing to do with making money.


Uhh, excuse me...?

I was around during that period when we went through the process of 
changing from being addressed as Negro to black. If you're trying to 
suggest that the reason this happened is because some loose cabal of 
white news editors said so, you're about to be thrown out for having been 
caught *WAY* off base.

That semantic change was one that worked from the inside-out.  For the 
first time in our history in this country, we were addressing ourselves 
by the term of our own choice. Newspapers gradually, even reluctantly, 
recognized this and acknowledged our basic right to be addressed as we 
choose to be addressed.
G.

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