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Originally Posted by Sidney Lanier
... to have to say that the POA has lost all credibility with my family and many of our friends in TV who've been following my story. For months your organization has been soliciting stories about experiences at TV Regional Hospital. I wrote a lengthy one about the extraordinarily outstanding care I received there following an accident in December and even sent a copy of the complimentary letter I had sent to the chief hospital administrator. I not only did not receive the courtesy of a reply, but our friends and we patiently waited to see my letter appear in the POA newsletter.
Given the totally negative approach of the POA to the hospital, it did sadden but it did not surprise us that not only did my story/letter not appear, but rather it printed only more negative stories and negative headlines more suitable to a supermarket tabloid rag--in two successive issues. Every organization is certainly entitled to a point of view, but when it absolutely consistently refuses to acknowledge the existence of a varying point of view, then it is simply untrue to call it 'the voice of the people' when it is obviously 'the voice of a handful of very specific individuals with an incontrovertible agenda,' leaving people like myself feeling edited, or worse, censored.
If any member/supporter of the POA is not an automaton and is truly open to other points of view, please feel free to read the thread I posted about my experience at the hospital and have the courtesy to at least acknowledge, if not respond; the link follows. If you're not open to this, then don't bother. 'Those who matter, care; those who don't care, don't matter.'
Before you accept as gospel truth all that negativity about TV Regional Hospital ... |
I, like you, also have a story to tell. I sent my letter of disatifaction to the
Daily Sun. Guess what? It was a negative opinion, and of course they wouldn't publish it.
I guess in todays world, if you are of different views, the two sides will never agree. The POA will look after our interests. Everyone knows the
Daily Sun has it's own interests covered.