Tom,

I agree with you wholeheartedly.  The only reason that I think the guy
that has "please help me I'm blind" on his underwear was mentioned first
in the article, is that he is local.  As a Pittsburgh resident, I'm
hoping that, because of this article, every time I'm standing on a down
town street corner minding my own business and thinking impure thoughts,
I'm not accosted by thousands of Pittsburghers running up to me saying
"let me buy you one of them/there new shirts."  I know that we can't
expect everybody who writes an article for a newspaper to be intimately
familiar with the subject on which they are writing.  However, I do
expect them to get factual information straight.  For example,
Bookshare.org was incorrectly reported as Bookshare.com.

          Bud Kennedy

          [log in to unmask]



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Fowle [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:37 PM
To: Bud Kennedy
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette July 15, 2003


Now there is a fine example of bad journalism wirtten by somebody with
no
experience at all with the field in which she is supposed to be
reporting.

Or am I biased by being rather nausiated by having talking signs and
other usefull products side by side with "I'm blind help me" caps and T
shirts.

Some stuff gets better, ans some most definitely does not.

Personal opinion only,
Tom Fowle


VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List.
To join or leave the list, send a message to
[log in to unmask]  In the body of the message, simply type
"subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations.
 VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html