Reply #202: I suggest you learn [View All]

[lala_rawraw]

how to have an honest discourse without snide remarks. firstly, I respect your efforts and hard work at the Red Cross, which is an organization that I supported for a long time, until this administration. but to suggest that (based on several of your posts in this thread):

1).You work there, therefore you know everything
2).Because you work there, it must be all well and good in the org
3).Because you work there, you are offended that anyone would write factual information about it that you happen to disagree with

All interesting points. As I have stated, I respect your intentions and I doubt that you or other volunteers and/or other/many workers are in any way involved with handling large sums of money. I believe that most people in the organization are there to help and Red Cross does help. This article is not about you, workers/volunteers, and/or donating vs. not donating. A news article is not meant to address your specific need or give you advice on how to proceed in your decision making.

Your argument is really telling. The MSM works in the way that you suggest. They like the president because he gives them pet names and takes them out for long camping trips. So they let a few things slide here and there.

Other MSM reporters may focus, for example, on Dean's scream until there is nothing left of the man, simply because they like another candidate better.

That is the problem, like it or not, facts are facts. I am not happy about the Red Cross situation, but that does not mean I have to bury the story. So please feel free to disagree, but don't make sweeping statements about the credibility of a news source based on the fact that you "don't like the story."

You are more than welcome to email the editor with factual corrections and any errors identified will be corrected. Humans make mistakes. Reporters are humans. Yet what you are saying is that somehow we decided to write a politically motivated hit piece. That is absurd and frankly, insensitive to those of us who do care about relief efforts.

Feel free to provide factual corrections to the piece and they will be made. Otherwise, feel free to give your opinion, but please refrain from attacking the publication just because you work at ARC. Really!!!