Betsy Chasse’s “call to action” in last month’s Herald about changing the media through compassionate yet firm responses and a demand for higher minded media content hit quite a nerve. As one reader responded:
Thank you, thank you, thank you Betsy. Thank you for your recent
article in the Bleepin' Herald regarding media issues. I have for a few
years now been trying to figure out what to do, how to go about bringing
about change in our media and how the media presents what they chose to
consider the facts of the events of our daily lives.
Are you ready? Do you know anyone else who is ready to band together
and put forth a concerted effort to help change the way things are in
this respect? … (see entirety in the Letters section)
Banding together for greater impact is effective, and there are many socially active media accountability organizations out there, like Our Media Voice. (There are also some viable alternative media sources to choose from, such as Working for Change (www.workingforchange.com) and CommonDreams.org.) But not everyone has the time to get involved in an action committee – including Betsy. If joining a group is not for you, she advises we can all take the time to write letters when impelled by the topic. The following is a recent example of how Will Arntz responded to an article in The New York Times. First the article:
Far Out, Man. But Is It Quantum Physics? By Dennis Overbye
Printed in the New York Times
Can physics save your soul?
Two years ago, a movie with the unpronounceable title "What the #$!%* Do We Know!?" became an underground new-age phenomenon, raking in $11 million out of midnight screenings and word of mouth, spawning an industry of books, tote bags, clothing, DVD's and "biofield" jewelry.
It purported to argue, based on the insights of modern quantum physics, that reality is just a mental construct that we can rearrange and improve, if we are enlightened or determined enough. Science and spirituality have tied the knot, and the world is your infinitely deformable apple.
This winter an expanded version, "What the Bleep, Down the Rabbit Hole," began to play to audiences who say that the movie confirms what they already thought about the cosmos, some vibe they had that it is a slippery, woo-woo-woo kind of place. The movie just finished a two-month run in New York and is to be shown in May at the Quest for Global Healing Conference, in Ubud, Bali, with luminaries like Walter Cronkite and Desmond Tutu attending. Continued on page 2
