Washington Post -1 in 12 disabled

[Guest guest]

<I like your positive attitude, but I don't think writing an editorial

to the Post would be helpful.>

Ann,

I disagree. We're not writing an editorial. It's going to be short and sweet

but get the point across. I believe a full-page ad in the Post will generate

both local and national appeal. Since this is a political issue that deals

with children, I think it will attract national media attention. Since this

isn't done that often, it makes it very appealing. I think it'll cause local

media to respond after seeing some of their " local " names in the ad.

The primary goal is to get the attention of politicians...to get them to vote

for the Burton-Waxman Bill. Our secondary goal is to make our point by

educating millions of people.

JoAnne Pike

Representative for Unlocking Autism in South Carolina

www.unlockingautism.org

[Guest guest]

Speaking of the Post, The Washinton Post ran an interesting article

front page of the metro section today.

US COUNTS ONE IN 12 CHILDREN AS DISABLED

One of every dozen U.S. childern and teenagers-5.2 million-has a

physical or mental disability, according to new figures from the 2000

census.

You can probably see the full story at their website.

Of course the article fails to mention the general link to

environmental toxins including thimersol, even though the article

mentions autisim. Poverty and " previous underdiagnosis " are cited

as strong factors contributing to the rise in physical and mental

disabilites.

Perhaps some editorals to the post explaining the real cause of

increasing childhood disabilites would be appropriate and effective.

Beware though, the post is a tough nut to crack. They have

systematically resisted printing ANY editorials on the amalgam issue

and as you may know have pooh pawed the thimersol issue from the

beginning. Perhaps the new " offical " census data will help to change

that. Or, maybe money is the only way to get the Post to print the

truth.

cz

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/5/2002 6:50:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,

sense@... writes:

> I wasn't referring to the full-page ad you've been working so hard

> on. I was referring to message 51844. Same newspaper, but different

> post topics.

Sorry for the misunderstanding Ann.

Jo

Representative for Unlocking Autism in South Carolina

www.unlockingautism.org

[Guest guest]

cz,

I like your positive attitude, but I don't think writing an editorial

to the Post would be helpful. I guess I'm enough of a media cynic to

suspect that they would carefully screen out editorial comments that

intelligently address mercury issues. Mainstream media rarely do any

real investigative reporting of hot medical issues. Typically, they

just call up someone from the CDC, NIH or such and interview them.

Then they " report " what the " experts " say.

IMHO, as long as medical diagnosticians can get away with symptomatic

labels out of the DMS-4 (such as autism, learning disabilities, ADD,

PDD-NOS), and ignore possible causes, there will be little progress

in this area. There's no pressure on practitioners to actually

identify etiologies such as heavy metals toxicity or pathogens in the

gut. In fact, those who do are often harrassed by licensure boards.

Sorry if my input is very negative, but I think we all need to spend

our time and energy very wisely. We're up against some pretty nasty

powers.....and we need to win this fight.

All the best,

Ann

>

> Speaking of the Post, The Washinton Post ran an interesting article

> front page of the metro section today.

>

> US COUNTS ONE IN 12 CHILDREN AS DISABLED

>

> One of every dozen U.S. childern and teenagers-5.2 million-has a

> physical or mental disability, according to new figures from the

2000

> census.

>

> You can probably see the full story at their website.

>

> Of course the article fails to mention the general link to

> environmental toxins including thimersol, even though the article

> mentions autisim. Poverty and " previous underdiagnosis " are cited

> as strong factors contributing to the rise in physical and mental

> disabilites.

>

> Perhaps some editorals to the post explaining the real cause of

> increasing childhood disabilites would be appropriate and effective.

>

> Beware though, the post is a tough nut to crack. They have

> systematically resisted printing ANY editorials on the amalgam issue

> and as you may know have pooh pawed the thimersol issue from the

> beginning. Perhaps the new " offical " census data will help to

change

> that. Or, maybe money is the only way to get the Post to print the

> truth.

>

> cz

[Guest guest]

JoAnne,

I wasn't referring to the full-page ad you've been working so hard

on. I was referring to message 51844. Same newspaper, but different

post topics.

All the best,

Ann

> <I like your positive attitude, but I don't think writing an

editorial

> to the Post would be helpful.>

>

> Ann,

>

> I disagree. We're not writing an editorial. It's going to be short

and sweet

> but get the point across. I believe a full-page ad in the Post will

generate

> both local and national appeal. Since this is a political issue

that deals

> with children, I think it will attract national media attention.

Since this

> isn't done that often, it makes it very appealing. I think it'll

cause local

> media to respond after seeing some of their " local " names in the ad.

>

> The primary goal is to get the attention of politicians...to get

them to vote

> for the Burton-Waxman Bill. Our secondary goal is to make our point

by

> educating millions of people.

>

> JoAnne Pike

> Representative for Unlocking Autism in South Carolina

> www.unlockingautism.org

>

>

>