Need a portal where Citizens get to ask the questions not major media
mark
reporters who may or maynot have other agendas besides getting the
truth out. I think we need a portal where citizens of the us get to
ask our so called elected officald questions and after that get to ask
another question. I think we need people to ask reasearchers who come
out with contradicting studies the questions cause obviously our press
sucks and is controlled by advertisers and the highest $ often and I
say this seriously ignoring the most important questions and instead
giving us junk talk.We had a deer that was hit by a car and instead of
talking about real issues like crime and poverty they had this story
on and weather every five minutes. Why cause the deer was stuck in the
radiator.. great.. I could give a flying .... about that while we had
40 people shot and no arrests in the last 3 weeks. . we need a portal
where consumers get to interview people and politicians and not
national media. end of story. Man do I have questions reporters don't
want to ask. I wonder if we are not like Russia except here we can
find somewhere to post assuming they dont' go around deleting all the
posts they don't like. I mean we can complain and go around circles
forever and still not change much.
hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com
> We need an outlet where citizens get to ask the questions
Every house has one. It's called a "mailbox". Real cheap to use,
less than 50c, only 28c for the slim version.
There is also a thing called a "public hearing", held for various
issues. Citizens can ask questions and get answers.
markj...@yahoo.com
Um I don't think so. Politicians never answered me. Sorry one did, and
that was way too much for him to keep it going. I assure you, what
they tell someone in private could be different what they would tell
hundreds in a public forum .
Incidentally that answer could be said why we need media/ reporters to
ask questions. The mail is old and it don't work. Major media works
for advertisers and political agendas far removed often enough from
truth
markj...@yahoo.com
so you don't think the public needs better respresentation?
The people who moderate message boards don't like my messages, and
grammer is not the issue.
The politicians can use the grammer issue to negate issues they don't
want to deal with I guess, but perhaps its best to tell the truth and
explain the reason why they don't want to respond instead-.Hoever that
issue never comes up ever.
Its the same thing with personal insults, which of course doesn't
change the idea on policy I am trying to make
Why is it some boards allow me to post and answer without asking me to
use better grammar? Why doesn't the politican swrite me and suggest I
need to use better grammar? You know why cause my sentence structure
is good enough to get the main idea across. Can my gammar get better?
Sure but most people know what I am talking about, at least most
people who don't take issue with my ideas lol
mark
As far as pols not answering you, have you tried, firstly, by
> contacting your district
> city council member? I'm not always crazy about Jannie Blackwell but
> she is very
> attuned and attentive to her constituents and she gets stuff done even
> if I don't always like
> her tactics. You might even try talking to her or her staff even
> though you
> don't live in her district. She's a very passionate person and she
> might actually think
> it's worthwhile listening to you.
> Since you are disabled and can still get around, right? I find it
> strange that you
> don't simply go to as many open sessions/forums as you can. I mean if
> you're not
> working a real job you should have a lot of time to get involved with
> the Clean Air
> Council of Phila for starters. Until you get involved with any air
> quality groups, how do you suppose
> you will gain the credentials that will, perhaps, cause politicians to
> pay attention to you? Politicians
> have to weed out time-wasting crackpots. Start portraying yourself as
> something
> more than a crackpot and they might listen to you.
oops we are geting personal again? I wonder why? lol I didn't know
that in order to gain access to politicians you need to 1, only use
mail and have correct grammer, 2, be part of an
organization which i physically need to belong to lol. Is this new? 3.
preferrably not waste time all day posting on the internet..or be
disabled? I didn't know these were the precondition in order to get
access to politicians.wow I am though totally surprised with your
objectivity lol
So are you suggesting reporters have
political agendas and thus get access to politicans? What I am
suggesting is since big corporations have a way to limit free
speech ,
for example by dropping news group access or , taking part in mass
censorship on their web sites, people need a way to get their message
across and to be able to ask questions to politicans without
belonging
to organization or having to prove they are or are not disabled lol
ohhhh
markj...@yahoo.com
> In article
> <c5202f09-3de3-4175-83b6-8050f5551...@d5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
>
> "markjer...@yahoo.com" <markjer...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 18, 10:44 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> > > On Nov 18, 1:39 pm, mark <markjer...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > > We need an outlet where citizens get to ask the questions
>
> > > Every house has one. It's called a "mailbox". Real cheap to use,
> > > less than 50c, only 28c for the slim version.
>
> > > There is also a thing called a "public hearing", held for various
> > > issues. Citizens can ask questions and get answers.
>
> > so you don't think the public needs better respresentation?
> > The people who moderate message boards don't like my messages, and
> > grammer is not the issue.
>
> everyone to do likewise. It is rare when I don't get a response.
> Sometimes the response is a form letter, but usually, it hits on all the
> points in my letter. You can also call your representatives any time
> during business hours to voice concerns on any issue. The real problem
> with our system of government is that not enough people take time to let
> their elected representatives know how they feel on important issues.
The real problem and its all over the net incidentally is people
wanting a voice and realize they have none.
Censorship is all over the net now. Politicians will answer you if you
are consistent with their views perhaps. If not how long do they have
to write a letter back and forth if they disagree? Never I have
written politicians from Specter to Nutter to Rendell on the net and
never got one response back ever. I did receive one response from
Specter who clearly knew what I was talking about. He promised to get
back (no I didn't hold a gun to his head) and he never did, At a
certain point you realize its useless trying to contact people you
know don't agree with you. You think those people don't know the power
of the net? They just know the power of tv is way way greater so why
answer one person on the net and have it out there for the world to
see in print and might be used against them? News people have access
and they often don't represent what people are thinking, hence the
same news stories on three free major networks. What news people think
is important is often perceived by the advertiser and the mighty
dollar as important not that which is truth. Crime is a perfect
examply, politicans don't want to get caught up in it because they
have to try to be all things to all people and by the way the news
people love that, cause they never ask about that or pollution for
that matter in this city.
What some politician tells me in a letter can never be as
invigorating or as speedy or as compelling as an email and many
politicians know this . Politicians don't often answer people on
message boards because they might foul up an answer and they have to
think fast.As soon as major media gets all their responses from snail
mail, then you might expect someone else to do it but its not going to
happen anytime soon.