Had there had been a legitimate, integrity-driven journalist entity within the so-called Deaf community, wouldn't those issues had already been reported or looked into? But we don't see that, do we? Instead people seem to be content on Deaf News and BnB to do stories that are mostly the benign stuff. Important? Sure, but they're still mostly the benign stuff.
For example, has the BnB done any serious, in depth journalistic work about rape, alcoholism, miscommunication issues, and other such investigative work on campus? Any real in depth investigative work they've done? What about other bloggers? If so, let me know. Or do they mostly do the commentary type of writings and try and keep to a safe leash instead? So far as for BnB they've already retracted a mismanaged article they did. Had it been in print instead of an electronic publication of that same Wirick article they wouldn't have had the easy convenience of retracting a story with the hope that it would quietly disappear. And to boot, it has been almost two months and no update to the public as to why they retracted their story or whether they'll issue an apology for their own mismanagement when their excuse for pulling it has to do with "safety concerns." Something is not adding up over there. We see hearing people who do investigative journalism on other hearing people or organizations to help expose the truth or at least question things that seems to be amiss. Yet, but when it comes to Deaf people, it's verbotten? Why? Something to hide? Skeletons in the closet? What?
Interesting.
And perhaps if the BnB, other similar "Deaf news" type of reporting and other bloggers had any journalistic gumption then they would have already investigated those stories. Right? But somebody did that once in the past some years ago who wrote an investigative piece and was summarily threatened with bodily harm on campus for doing such an investigative piece that deserved to be investigated. Makes ya wonder about the idiocy out there.
I like what J.P.R. had to say about what I do:
You are like Yang (or Yin, it does not matter which one) that must exist to counterbalance Yin (or Yang). If you stop, Yang will diminish or disappear and Yin will overpower the blogsphere. That is bad.
Please keep blogging on.
Joseph Pietro Riolo
Just keeping the balance here whether ya'll like it or not. Otherwise it'd be a boring, boring deaf/hh blogosphere out there. No? Okay, perhaps a bit of an exaggeration there but you get my drift.
What I do has nothing to do with malice but of concern and the desire to go deeper in the hope to bring up underlying issues that are essentially "verbotten" for the lack of a better word here. I don't use Godwin's law or bring up reminiscences of Nazism or use Nazi-analogies about the so-called eugenics and such, and go about labeling using the a-wordism and other similar "wordism" at work with such ferocity you'd think it's a serious case of dysfunctionalism at work out there.
