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I found this commentary, written by a CBS editor, that is one of the most sincere self reflection pieces I have ever read.

Commentary: The unbearable smugness of the press - CBS News
I have tried to get the press involved with my 224 613 Project since 1993. Unless there is something in it for them-- like when the Scientologists called me around 2003 wanting to do an article about the abuse of psychiatry- usually I just have been ignored or have argued with some of them. Except for the Memorial Day 2007 article by Gary Corsair of The Villages Daily Sun about me and my work trying to get the Florida Victim Services Directory linked to the web-sites of the Lake, Sumter and Marion public library systems. Mr. Corsair Googled me and found some e-mails I sent Snopes.com back in the early 2000s. They had put these in their Tin Foil Hat section so that anyone could make fun of them but the e-mailer of the stuff to Snopes could not defend him or herself. A real nasty thing to do and grossly unfair.

My relations with the press now in 2014-2016 seem much better but it took the obvious help of some very influential people to get them even to pay attention.

I did send hundreds of thousands of e-mails to the press in 1999-2005. So I just over did it a great deal. I keep wondering when these e-mails and where they will re-surface. They do resurface --the ones to newspapers and the like-- every so often. Even if I sent them a decade or more before. There was one from the Student Newspaper at Brandeis-- The Justice-- from 2003 that came back up in 2011 that had a huge impact. It has disappeared again. But people could see it for a year or so right around the 2012 Presidential Elections.


So much now of the press seems to be about entertainment rather than anything else. I have no control over those hundreds of thousands of e-mails I sent from 1999-2005. None went to Anthony Weiner, I assure you.

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