[sudo-discuss] Agenda Item for next week's meeting: ONL is not a member collective.

[Andrew Lowe]

My point is that whether or not the show was political or entertainment,
event producers should have some autonomy in how they run their events.
Feed back is welcome, but there was no brekaing of any collective policy
that i know of, even so it's being used as an official reason to strip a
group of it's membership. I find that unnerving, should we have to run the
content and format of all events by the collective for fear that an event
could lead to a group losing it's membership?


On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:50 AM, yar <yardenack at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Andrew Lowe <andrew at lostways.com> wrote:
> > I did not attend this event, but I have attended ONL events before. ONL
> is a
> > talk show, I'm not sure why not being political enough makes them
> > "offensive". I mean I will let them speak for them selves, but they are
> an
> > entertainment show, why would you expect a "debate" at a talk show?
> >
> > Anyway, just standing up for this show even if it isn't really my cup of
> tea
> > all the time, I think what ONL has been able to do with it is pretty
> > amazing, and to force them out because their show isn't radical enough in
> > the ways you want it to be would be a shame.
>
> Sorry to beat a dead horse here, but just for the record ...
>
> 1) To bill Saturday's show as apolitical "entertainment" would be
> disingenuous. They did not invite Dan Siegel the private citizen to
> chat with him about his hobbies. They invited three candidates for an
> upcoming election to air campaign commercials, give stump speeches and
> answer token questions about their political platform. Exactly that,
> no more, no less.
>
> 2) Absolutely nothing in my critique was "radical". It was barely even
> liberal. Asking for substantive debate is about the most centrist
> position you could possibly imagine. Has our overton window really
> shifted this much?
>



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