Re: My unprinted opinion piece for the Courier Mail

[Guest guest]

Boy, he really chopped it, didn't he? At least there is some good

info in the letter, but it baffles me that they had to remove the

science references, as the pro-vax side is always screaming at us to

provide them with some science to support our side... just goes to

show how scared they are of that science actually coming out to the

public.

Great piece, by the way.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:57 PM, meryl@... <meryl@...> wrote:

> Two days ago, I submitted an opinion piece to the Courier Mail in

> reply to Jane Fynes-Clinton's rabidly anti-choice piece which you can

> read here if you didn't read the forwarded copy - http://tinyurl.com/c8jsbk

> .

>

> After discussion with Bob Mac, the editor of the opinion page

> who told me among other things that I needed to take the scientific

> references out of the piece because I was replying to an opinion piece

> and my science was not relevant (!!!!!) and he had shown my letter

> around to 'lots of other people' at the paper and they said I was

> selectively quoting and that if he printed the piece on the opinion

> page with my references, it would only invite people from the other

> side to write in with their own references (oh no! not an informed

> debate!), he cut the piece down and it is printed today as a letter to

> the editor.