Radicalism of reading

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Fri May 2 12:16:52 CDT 1997


Greg sez

>Not to reopen old wounds -- or threads (Ebonics: threat or menace?) --
>but the point of the exchange between me & Joshua was more in line with the
>current "propaganda/lame media" thread:  the whole Ebonics embroglio wasn't
>ABOUT Ebonics -- it was about the newsmedia purposely presenting the subject
>in a false, inflammatory light to stir up as much controversy (& sell as
>many papers & as much commercial time) as possible.
>
>Hoping you are the same...

Mm, well, it looked to me like that was the point up until the paragraph 
I responded to -- but if I truly misunderstood, I apologize for snapping 
at Joshua.


Cheers,
David




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