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"that we are able to generate hundreds of emails, phone calls and letters from around the country;"
Should read . . . from around the Globe. I wrote to Mr Getler and headed my submission:
LETTER FROM ENGLAND
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by Anonymous User on 01:41 PM December 28th, 2004 EST (#4)
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It's definatly a grass-hopper of some sort!
:-)
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by Anonymous User on 10:01 PM December 27th, 2004 EST (#2)
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I can't find this anywhere on-line, but I have the paper it appears in, and have quoted from it in the letter below I sent to the editor of the Los Angeles Daily News. It's funny how this story like Sheila Kuehl's famous Super Bowl Myth has "grown legs."
The vicious misandry in the Washington Post's story has now run all the way across the U.S. from the east coast to the west coast.
It's got legs! Run Forest! Run! Run!
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Dear Editor:
Well it appears the damage is already done in true to form feminist fashion. I took my old car in to get the brakes and oil leaks worked on this morning, then walked to a local truck stop type diner to have breakfast (I like the atmosphere). I was chewing on one of those delicious country style taters and reading my morning paper, when I almost inhaled a chunk.
There in the black and white print was a reference in the Los Angeles Daily News, 12-27-04, Page 15 - NEWS to the series that had just run in the Washington Post. The op-ed was by Rich Lowry and was called Life and Death Issues. The story started out by talking about the case of the Missouri woman who had the baby cut from her womb by another woman, then transitioned at one point to this,
"The Stinnett case is unusual, but violence against pregnant women - usually committed by the biological fathers -. is not."
Here's another one of the parts I choked on:
"'As the Post put it in explaining one typical murder, the father "at first denied it was his child, then pressed for an abortion, then plotted murder." "It seems to me that those guys hope against hope for a miscarriage or an abortion, but when everything else fails, they take the life of the woman to avoid having the baby."'
Lowry failed to mention that all of these men had about as much legal "CHOICE" in the lives of their fetuses (if indeed the fetuses were theirs) as a door knob has in saying which way it will be turned. Lowry somehow forgot to mention that 41,000,000 fetuses have legally been killed by women since the legalization of abortion. It also appears that Lowry did not read these letters to the editor of the Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25144-20 04Dec24?language=printer concerning the article he quoted from, or perhaps he would have been less inclined to repeat the male bashing gender feminist propaganda he quoted in his article. Here is part of the letter written by Darryl McLeod and published by the Washington Post:
"...the facts presented in your story suggest that their murder rates may be lower than the rate for women overall.
The story reports "1,367 pregnant women and new mothers" murdered since 1990. However, using 100 murders and about 4 four million live births annually (see the U.S. Statistical Abstract) yields a murder rate for pregnant women of about 2.5 per 100,000 over the past 14 years, well below the 3.5 for all women.
Both of these rates should have been reported to give a truer picture of the threat."
Tom Golden writes:
"Contrast this article with the plight of a young black man living in Washington, whose chance of being killed is far greater. We need front-page articles about why black men are being murdered. That is truly a social syndrome."
I especially liked this comment by the Washington Post Ombudsperson http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A260 74-2004Dec25.html about the criticism the Washington Post received on the series that Lowry quotes from,
"The criticism that seemed most worthy of attention was directed at the statistical underpinnings of the project, especially those statistics that were not in the articles, and the cautions about the data."
The tactics of the gender feminist movement in creating another male bashing myth with manipulation of statistics is once again paying fruits as evidenced by the "journalists" who repeat the ms-information, half truths and outright lies, and in so doing create a new urban myth. It is tragic how such lazy, incompetent journalism has such wide circulation. There ought to be a higher value placed on well researched truth, and a stricter scrutiny placed on irresponsible ms-information, but when you are operating under the rules of gender feminist "connected knowing," a consensus of opinion replaces soundly researched facts, logic, and common sense to give us this kind of tabloid sensationalism, and gender feminist propaganda we see in the Washington Post and Lowry articles..
Sincerely, Ray
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by Clancy
(long_ponytail@yahoo.com)
on 12:30 PM December 28th, 2004 EST (#3)
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...and sent a letter of thanks to Mr. Getler. I would rather have seen a retraction of the entire series of articles but sometimes victories come in small doses. Thanks to all who wrote to the WP to lodge the initial complaints, since I did not. I appreciate what you are doing to clear our, MY, besmirched image.
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by Anonymous User on 07:49 AM December 29th, 2004 EST (#5)
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While huge praise goes out to both Mens Activism and particularly to NCFM-DC for that GREAT letter challenging the Post's anti-male sexism, this hardly qualifies as a "home run".
Yes, it's certainly a step in the right direction, to get to Post to even acknowledge that it received complaints about the article, but Getler's 4 paragraph acknowledgement can only be described as a "weasel piece".
Please, take a closer look .... what Getler cleverly did was to briefly acknowledge that the Post received "critical comments", but he really only glosses over the incriminating evidence. Instead of a mea culpa, what Getler REALLY did was to deflect the criticism and then actually heap MORE praise on the series of articles:
"The Post, and reporter Donna St. George, produced a prodigious, valuable, year-long but timely journalistic effort." ["We don't care WHAT you told us, WE still think we did a great service!"}
"...it documented, well beyond recent daily headlines, the extent to which homicides against pregnant women and new mothers occur in this country, a far greater extent than most of us probably realize." ["NCFM-DC and others have literally shown us the error of our ways, but that's our story, and we're sticking with it."]
The entire third paragraph is slippery journalism at its very worst. The paragraph's first words almost scream out, "what follows is crap!": "The criticism that SEEMED MOST WORTHY OF ATTENTION... " [Huh? To anyone but the most biased observer, these criticisms are both accurate and self-evident, but the best that Getler and the Post can do is tell us that they "seemed most worthy of attention"?] And the paragraph ends with the same worthless weaseling as it began: "The series ... both informed and alarmed." [Duh. But you never really addressed your critics' concerns. Double-duh.]
Stopping now is letting the Post off the hook without demanding a *legitimate* response to our original emails and letters. What needs to happen now is a second round of emails and letters to the Post, DEMANDING a legitimate accounting and acknowledgement of the deficiencies and biases of these 3 articles.
A single, maybe. A home run? No way. Not until we have a full acknowledgement by the Post.
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by Anonymous User on 09:06 PM December 29th, 2004 EST (#6)
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I see that Newsweek is one of the affiliates of the Washington Post, owned by the same company or something like that.
Has anyone checked to see if Newsweek is repeating, (spreading) this new pregnant womam domestic violence hysteria? Funny how these myths pop up just around the time VAWA comes up for funding. Is anyone keeping track of the number of frauds committed to get money so VAWA can scam more innocent men? Now that sounds like some real news.
Ray
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