John, I think most people would take Jim's mention of "Obama death panels" to be a metaphor for reductionist fear mongering and the deliberate spreading of disinformation. I myself didn't interpret it as a comment on Obama, health care, death panels, or any other aspect of the statement's literal content, and I don't think Jim intended it that way. I think calling the statement "smut" is a misinterpretation of the writer's intent, and it doesn't strike me as a very sophisticated reading of it. I also consider it unnecessarily hostile and inflammatory.
Shirley
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From: John Kilgour john@digitalcut.com>
To: Avid-L2 Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 30, 2013 8:47 am
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Have you talked to your Congressman about Government censors in local newsrooms?
No it wasn't. The mention of Obama Death Panels has nothing to do with TV, video
or our industry, no matter how hard you try to pigeon-hole it in. Keep your
smut to yourself, please
On Jan 30, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Jim Feeley jfeeley@gmail.com> wrote:
> That comment (by me) was perfectly reasonable. One side of an issue resorted
to unsubstantiated fear mongering that didn't help those after reasonable
debate. I've looked pretty deeply into the whole Fairness Doctrine; interviewed
FCC staff and commissioners, NAB and other lobbyists, Congressional folks,
scholars. Sadly, that article in Broadcast Engineering doesn't advance the
debate as much as it could.
>
> Jim Feeley
> jfeeley@gmail.com
>
> On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:16 AM, John Kilgour wrote:
>
> > My response was directed towards the "Obama death-panels" jibe, not this
article per-se. I see enough anti-Obama smut on facebook.
>
>
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