Sarah Churman's new book....Powered On

Remember Sarah Churman with almost 14 million hits to date on YouTube? Yeah, you remember her (and all the hate or lamentations that followed like here,  here, here, here, here, ....ad nauseum) and the Esteem Envoy implantable hearing aid that was turned on for the first time and it turned Sarah Churman into an overnight internet sensation. That sensation is still continuing almost a year later with the ongoing media coverage.  Anyways, she has a new book coming out in October. The book is called "Powered On."  The title certainly does make sense. And if you pre-order now you can save a few bucks before her book comes out officially in October. I already ordered mine! And I'll let you know when I'm done reading it. I'm sure it's much better than buying a blank book under false advertisement and pretenses (oh, I never bought it, fyi) but I still reserve that the Steve Jobs book I got would be the better one to read and enjoy. We'll see. Get yours today!

A mostly blank book = Deaf community?

For a person or company to sell books containing mostly blank pages purposely aimed at the Deaf community on the heel of a massive investment fraud that came to a screeching halt where some 6,000 deaf people lost their money is nothing but bad timing. Not only was it bad timing but utter stupidity fits the picture as well when the self-promotion and marketing were designed to mislead and decieve the public into thinking it was a legitimate bookful of writings. But it wasn't. Simply put it was an effort to make a fast and dishonest buck. We can already see that.

Yes, it was dishonest.

Yes, it was stupid.

Yes, it was very misleading on how that book was marketed. But the problem with that book is that it could now be used against the Deaf community. Let's consider a possible scenario.

If hearing parents with deaf/hh children have questions about the Deaf community wanting to know what it is like all one has to do is to show them a particular book containing mostly empty pages.  A book that could aptly describe the Deaf community as one person could say to the hearing parent, "A book with very little to show for with lots blank pages."  Upon that explained realization parents would recoil in utter disbelief and amazement at the effort of that dishonesty to fool people into buying that book. And conclude it'd be far safer to keep their deaf/hh child away from that Deaf community.

What a nice way to keep shooting themselves in the foot again and again and again and again. Credibility continues to crater.

Anybody want to buy London Bridge for a buck?