-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 12:27 PM 9/15/2005, you wrote:
None of these are my views, none written by me, or at my instigation.
Our readers send me various articles, synopses, URLs, etc., and I usually just put them in exactly as I receive them, and sometimes I ask our CEO if something should be included.
Then I suggest that it would be quite advantageous to exercise a little more discretion. I would advise only putting things in the newsletter which are directly relevant to the work of PG and the fulfillment of it's plans and expansion of its goals. Anything beyond that lowers the value of the newsletter and causes people to be less likely to read it because of its bulk. It also may, (as I mentioned previously), due to the hot-button nature of some issues cause rifts in the PG community which could easily be avoided.
I am not a political person, I am apolitical to the point of anti-political, and I don't have any political agenda, other than to stay pretty much as far away from politics as I can get, as many people are aware.
If you don't like something from one of those articles, the URL is usually there, and you are more than encouraged to send letters to the editors, and we will be only too glad to post any such letters that are published, and perhaps even some that haven't been [I'll probably ask our CEO first].
The point wasn't the issues raised by the article excerpts, the point was their relevance and appropriateness in the PG newsletter.
As for any changes in the last few months, none that I know of, we just cut the old Newsletter into two portions, but didn't change the content.
I suppose I just never paid close enough attention. It's been a while since I've even opened a newsletter because of its size and redundancy, and even longer since I've made it all the way through one.
If you read all the Newsletters over the years, you'll find a very smooth evolution from issue to issue, with the obvious changes when we switched from Monthly to Weekly, and then subdivided when we had volunteers to do the new versions. As you can see, most of the Newsletter is automated, or could/should be, and most of the rest is simply cut and pasted.
All of the "hot button" issues are simply taken from the lower echelon media coverage to point out how much they have been hidden, which is the primary point, not the actual content. However, if you have issues with the actual content, perhaps a letter to this Newsletter, as well as to the original media source would engender a conversation. Again, I would have to run this by our CEO.
Please note that no mention was made of the political events of Michael Brown, Judge Roberts, etc., or similar political "hot buttons."
If you have certain topics you would like to have covered, or, perhaps even NOT covered, just let us know, and perhaps we can make adjustments.
We've been quoting Edupage and/or Newsscan for years without any mention from a single one of our readers, other than to correct typos in their copy that was cut and pasted. A minimal number of scientific articles have also been referenced, but I presume those were not considered to be "hot button" issues.
They always seemed rather neutral to me, if not a little irrelevant to PG. That's not to say they weren't interesting, but I'm just not sure they belong in a PG newsletter. Anyway, that's my $0.02. Sincerely Aaron Cannon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 Comment: Key available from all major key servers. iD8DBQFDKb7LI7J99hVZuJcRAtE6AJ9b8c/DToo/jNF3iPnqwcRfXYU/IACgqym6 JzPF/PQoSp2E4f52EHL/fkw= =Sl95 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----