Letters to the Editor
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captioning please?
10% of the population is Deaf/deaf or hard of hearing. and that makes a video essay inaccessible.
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Can we stop with the pointless videos? If I want to hear people talking, I'll watch TV.
Even besides the above poster's very valid point, plenty of readers view Salon.com from work or a library or other places where we can't play a video with audio.
I know that pretty much every website that prides itself on content really jumped on the video bandwagon, but I'm not sure why. Just because the technology exists, doesn't mean that there's any purpose for it.
I would have liked to see what she has to say about this, too.
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Ditto
Thank you, Megan C!!!!
I don't wanna "watch" computer, either--besides, some of us have machines that can take forever to download a video.
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I completely agree
Give us the option of a transcript, please. I process information best that way.
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You didn't miss anything
It was an ad for advocacy.
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reading age
look mommy, I can read all by myself. (Ditch the damned videos)
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Yes, captioning, but MomsRising is cool
I've been a member for several months now, and I find their advocacy for women and children (and therefore, all of us) inspiring.
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Not Cool
Momsrising is yet another female only special interest group. They dont speak or advocate for me.
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@hotrod
Well, as a "white woman" (by late 20h century standards, anyway), the NAACP doesn't "speak for me" either, yet I acknowledge their coolness.
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@Juliebird
How much e-mail do you get from MomsRising? I thought it sounded interesting, but was leery of signing up for more sign-this-petition-and-call-your-socialist-senator-so-he-knows-how-to-vote e-mails. (I don't think Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy really need my help to make progressive voting choices....) What do you see as the advantages of signing on?
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@melthough
I do get my fair share of "sign this petition/call your representative" kind of stuff.
But MomsRising emails me far less frequently than MoveOn, or either the HRC or Obama campaign. I'd say a few emails a month (not several emails a week). I got involved over a public breast feeding issue (something I'm pretty vocal about, if you've read my posts on the subject).
The latest email was about an event in a city near my home.
I've also gotten emails with links on how to test lead in toys, or how to look up a toy on the shelf in a store to see if it's been tested for lead.
I was asked late last year to vote for specific issues I'd like MomsRising to focus on in the election cycle. More in-depth than a "rate these causes most to least important" form.
And I've gotten email that serve as newsletters/updates on work by the organization.
Easy to ignore, if you're not interested in the "cause du jour." Easy to get involved, if you are.
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@Juliebird
Sorry, the "....and children (and therefore, all of us)" part rubbed me the wrong way. I'm sure their cool, as long as they aren't advocating taking more money (taxes) from white guys (me) to give to single mothers and their children.
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Video Vote
Count me as a NO! Give us a transcript (and a straight forward one, no (laughs) crap.
Note how few letters you get discussing a video compared to text. And don't count all of us who haven't bothered to yawn through the process of downloading a jerky video that's going to strain our eyesight and require effort to parse what was said on the crummy sound.
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OKAY...NEXT
Hey, you lost me within the first 10 seconds.
"The MoveOn co-founder believes in the wisdom of many." What? Well, isn't that special! How radical. How poignant. How daring. How revolutionary!
These people take themselves WAAAAAAY too seriously.
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IF THIS COUNTRY WOULD JUST GET
...it's head out of its ass, and it's President and Congress get busy with education, creating meaningful work again that supported a family, and gave us the opportunities that those were given after WWII, we wouldn't need the MomsRising of the world or any other left or right group "advocating" for anyone!
Thank god for victims or these groups wouldn't have a damn thing to say OR do with their time.
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As someone who is surrounded by the creepy Moms Against Everything
You know the type, self professed 'liberals' who want an RFID chip in every teen, a detailed criminal check for everyone who ever did and ever will come in contact with a minor, helmets, face masks, bubble wrap and peanut scanners for everyone, is against capital punishment except for cell phone users, hates censorship unless it's to actually censor everything, thinks the internet will make your daughters smoke meth while giving handjobs to filthy bikers....
I have to say that the general purpose all containing bucket of all virtues and fears under the single aegis of "Mom" leaves me cold. I know this type doesn't drink wine anymore because they are the New Prohibitionists, but if they did, I'm sure they'd sit around sip wine and chat about these important issues, as the Mexican houskeeper scuttled about picking up the debris.
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Thanks, Juliebird.
That was helpful.
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too much email
I'm as much of a lefty-activist as the next person (and a mom of two kids) but I unsubscribed to MomsRising, MoveOn.org and all the groups demanding I "write my Congressperson/Senator today" when they know that I DON'T HAVE ANY! Please, use your technology to cross reference the fact that I live in Washington, DC and despite paying federal taxes just like everyone else, I don't have a Senator or Congressperson who can vote on any of the issues they demand I take action about.
When these groups advocate for and win me and my fellow Washingtonians our due representation in Congress, I will resubscribe.
Signed me, Disenfrancised
OH, and I hate the video commentary too. If I wanted to watch TV, I'd watch TV.
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What is Eleanor Holmes Norton - chopped liver???
Just kidding. That always annoyed me about living in D.C. too. One more great reason to move to a liberal state! Your vote is rendered meaningless in an entirely new and exciting way! :)
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Oh please...come on....
What is with this video shit on Salon?
If I wanted to watch the telelvision...well?...I'd do so.
Moreover....please tell this woman (and Rebeccah Traister and Tracy Clark-Flory) that they need to practice LESS on the intentionaly-timed smile...and that acting-class-101 lift-of-the-eyebrows, which I gather is supposed to convey some sort of ironic over-knowledge....
Oh well...this video thing is very irritating. It's as though it were still 1990, and someone on the staff of the college newspaper has a dad who just gave her a CAMCORD (!) for christmas!!!....
In short....Joan Blades seemed patently disingenuous in that little video.....I loved the little "smiles" and eyebrow raisings.....and the THOUGHTFUL-PAUSES while she worked her way through what was an obviously pre-written, flat-out, bald-assed script.
Nothing wrong with scripts.....but you folks used to put out a better product than you do now.
You folks should stick to print.
----david terry