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The UK media disgusts me
by cedars 39 Replies latest jw friends
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MidwichCuckoo
I've emailed 'The Sun' newspaper here ...
(if anyone wants to read a copy of my email, please PM me with your email address and I will forward)
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MidwichCuckoo
...and I've tweaked my email for 'The Times' newspaper, lol.
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dozy
Unless it is a blood related story involving a British person ( eg the woman who died after giving birth to twins a few years ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-491791/Jehovahs-Witness-mother-dies-refusing-blood-transfusion-giving-birth-twins.html ) the UK press aren't interested in any JW related story , especially from abroad. Lets face it - a religion in the US getting stung for millions of dollars in a paedophile settlement isn't exactly headline news.
I don't blame the press - they know what sells newspapers & what doesn't. Most people just have zero interest in religion in general & JWs in particular. It just doesn't register ( what we used to term "apathy" in JW days. ) In the rare occasions when I talk to any "worldly" work colleagues about my JW past , their eyes just glaze over.
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cedars
Thanks everyone, I guess I need to be more patient. I just think that, however small Jehovah's Witnesses are as a religion, they are still well-known to almost everyone due to the preaching work. I try to see things from the perspective of someone who knows little or nothing about JWs, and I keep returning to the fact that I would STILL be interested in knowing that the leadership of the people who knock on my door has been convicted by a jury of being legally responsible for the molestation of a nine-year-old girl. It's not something I would obsess over if I were a non-JW, but I would still be interested and would appreciate the opportunity to read about it. The fact that this case is (thus far) being overlooked makes me wonder just how many other newsworthy events there are out there that are being ignored by the UK press in favor of petty inane things like "dress code assistants" at Ascot.
Cedars
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life is to short
Ceders
I truly understand your frustration. I know even here in the States I have been stonewalled over the problem with the pedophiles when I have approached the media. It is just mind boggling to me. When I have told them that Jehovah's Witnesses send pedophiles door to door and I show them the proof of it they are speechless. I have talked to in person to a couple of reporters and I can clearly see what I am showing them in print is clearing upsetting them. One reporter was visibly upset but they did not run the story.It is really hard not to take it personally. It just does not make sense. I have had news people tell me that knowing their child could open the door to a Jehovah's Witnesses on a Saturday morning and that, that JW could be a pedophile really upsets them. OK then tell the public. That is all I want all I have ever wanted is for the public to know. At least in the Catholic Church parents have to send their children to the Church to get molested, JW's send their pedophiles door to door, how kind of them to expose the whole world to their sick problem and yet they slam the Catholics every chance they get. It just makes my blood boil.
I just do not get it and this is here in the good old Pacific Northwest.LITS
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Black Sheep
Take out your frustrations at http://talk.notthetalk.com/
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Joey Jo-Jo
the Australian media disgusts me too
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cofty
Here is the list I emailed. To be fair all the journalists were already in the pub when I sent it on Friday afternoon.
The Sun
Daily Mail
Guardian – Stephen Bates
BBC Online
Daily Express
Independent
The Star
The Mirror
The People
London Evening Standard
Scottish Daily Herald
The Scotsman
Sunday Telegraph
Daily Telegraph
New Statesman
Channel 4 News
ITN News
Sky News
BBC – Betsan Powys
BBC – Rebecca Cafe
BBC – Emma Britton
Evengelical Times + ET International
Christianity Magazine
Evangelicals Now
PZ Myers
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MidwichCuckoo
Cofty - I've (so far) emailed The Sun, The Times and The Star. Want to compare emails..? lol