Comments on: Cut, copy and paste the Focus way

By: Bene D

Bene D — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:43:10 +0000

Hi Susan:

I don’t know if you can receive the feed by email, I guess it depends on your RSS reader.
Since you used a business URL in your comment I’ve removed it along with your business title - this blog gets enough spam. Anyone stopping by from Florida that needs your professional services can use state and local directories.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:26:18 +0000

My name is Susan and I live in Orlando. Is there a way to get this blog feed in my email?

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:37:35 +0000

That’s depressing.
I’m going back to my book.

By: Non-Prophet

Non-Prophet — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:39:46 +0000

Grab some text from the pre-written stuff and google it on google news. There are a la carte letters to the editor that have been published in newspapers all over the country from this.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:48:23 +0000

Bene, when I served as a manager in a Christian bookshop, I was amazed at the similarities in some of the books published by Dobson. Whole pages the same. Then a customer commented that he believed that they thought of a new name for a book, took out the folder of previously written works and threw it down the stairs. Those pages which landed with type uppermost were gathered, shuffled and republished. OK, obviously over the top, but this seems along the same lines. At least it explained the enormous amount of almost identical copy.
Shalom,Jan

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:56:23 +0000

I can accept most people aren’t politically involved. By the time they cut and paste they could use a search engine and look up “How to write a letter to the editor” or pick up the phone and call a newspaper and ask.

This degrades people.
It assumes editors are fools. (Human and prone to the same mistakes any of us would make but not fools)
It assumes believers are lazy and uninvolved, and can’t put together 200 of their own words if they wish to.

And you are correct about using their ‘opponents tactics.
The FOTF article put on an article defending what they’ve done and attempting to put the blame on those that see this as inappropriate.
Talk about spin.
Everyone else does it, so what’s the beef?

It would be great if individuals thought about being ethical in the small things - especially when entering the public square.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

By: Tom Reindl

Tom Reindl — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:24:39 +0000

Bene, I think they do this because they know of the laziness of the average believer. Their intent is control of the issues at hand, and by doing this, they can “honestly” claim that it is the “people” who are calling for some action or change, and not the group FOTF. They are generating false interest and reaction by using the very laziness that their opponents do.

Yes, it is rather “worldly”, isn’t it?

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:44:27 +0000

Politicans are always looking for ink or air time.
This is different.

By: Jordon Cooper

Jordon Cooper — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:32:54 +0000

It is pretty standard lobbying and it is done because it works really well. If you wait a month or two and do a Google search for the letters, chances are they will appear online in countless small town newspapers. The RNC does it all of the time and their “letters” get published in all sorts of papers.

In a former life I helped write that copy for a certain political party (I apologize) and it got into many Saskatchewan papers who needed filler content.