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Originally Posted by dreama
I'm sorry but I don't agree. Newspapers also have an agenda. Primarily to sell newspapers, but they also tend to support the status que wheras blogs don't.
I've had newspaper articles written about me. (I was doing volentary work as a Masseur at the time a few days a week and also I did a couple of charity treks for guide dog association)
They turned me into some kind of Helen Keller act alike. Their was a lot of things that were not actually true. I'm not sure where they got it from because I did tell them what I believed to be the truth but what came out is sort of like a 'superdeafo-blink wondergirl kind of stuff. The person they were writing about didn't exist.
Luckily in my case it wasn't done in a malicious way which isn't the case for some people. They just seemed to assume that People would be more interested in a Helen Keller actalike rather then an ordinary deafblind person with editional problems who was struggling to manage to the best of her ability.
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the situation you're describing of being viewed as the next helen keller has more to do with the individual reporter who interviewed you rather than the fact that newspapers have an agenda. you can't control what a reporter writes and certainly can't make generalizations about newspapers and their intent. i've also had many newspaper articles written about me. some of them have been excellent while others have not. i simply chalk it up to the fact that there are some reporters (many, actually) who do not understand deafblindness which explains why they make me appear superhuman when i'm not.