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- Subject: Re: Princess Diana, Somalia, NY Times, history
- From: galan@netlink.cts.com (Greg Gross)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 10:21:40 PST
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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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