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NCRA - Trying to make truth known through smokescreen
My background is a court reporter who specialized in taking court trials.
During jury trials I heard the phrase "smokescreen" used by defense lawyers.
If the defense lawyers could make enough of a "smokescreen," the jury could be confused and not render a plaintiff's verdict.
Nowhere was this "smokescreen" concept used more than in the O.J. Simpson case where the policemen were put on trial and small iotas of inconsistencies played such a vital role to divert the jurors from the overwhelming evidence of guilt.
I say NCRA officials have used a "smokescreen" to sabatoge the implementation of Geographic Listing of the JCR Court Reporter Listings.
In 1998 I was leading an extremely successful campaign to alert JCR Court Reporter Listing advertisers of the extremely poor service they were being given by having their ads listed by seniority in a total mishmash mess.
Dozens of advertisers were so upset with the seniority listings that they canceled their ads, and I notified the NCRA board of each advertiser which canceled its ad.
At that time then President Prout denegrated the loss of dozens of advertisers who canceled their ads due to great, great dissatisfaction with seniority listing of their JCR Court Reporter Listing ads.
In President Prout's March 19, 1998 e-mail to me he put forth a total "smokescreen" as follows.
"Dear Mr. Parsons, ...I find it interesting that you note the loss of several advertisers and lay blame on the structure of the listings.
"Your analysis does not account for business downturns, increased competition for advertising dollars and the cancellation of ads in the wake of the enormous number of acquisitions."
No improvements to the advertising policies can ever be made as long as "smokescreens" are allowed to be put forth by NCRA officials.
As an example, the police could know that a certain intersection has the most accidents in a city.
Rather than recognizing that the intersection is a dangerous intersection needing remediation, the police could say, "Oh, well, the accidents are due to driver inattention. The accidents are due to cellphone conversations by drivers. The accidents are due to faulty brakes and equipment on the cars. The accidents are due to the fact that many of the drivers had just gotten their licenses and were inexperienced drivers. The accidents were due to drivers driving too fast. The accidents were due to inclement weather conditions."
By the above example, we see that the actual cause of the accidents, i.e. the dangerous intersection, has been obfuscated and any move to improve the intersection is totally downplayed, and the result is that no one will undertake studies to develop plans to avert the dangerous intersection by building a newer safer intersection."
Mr. Prout had only to ask an NCRA staffer to phone 155 lost advertisers and ask them why they canceled their ads. No such phone calls were made.
NCRA refused to survey its members with phone calls that would have taken a few hours.
Instead the members were given a "smokescreen" which prevented the correction of the terrible service being given to NCRA Court Reporter Listing advertisers in the large states.
Due to NCRA officials putting forth a "smokescreen," millions of dollars of revenue have been lost to the association and the dues have been raised by needless large dues increases.
The lost advertising revenue due to the great advertiser dissatisfaction with seniority listings could have averted if color-coded geographic listing of the ads by city had been implemented.
NCRA members deserve so much more than "smokescreens" when the vital interests of the members are at stake.
That's why I have pleaded and pleaded with NCRA officials to please not say whatever comes into their minds and to stop engaging in wild negative speculation to defeat the attempts of myself and my supporters to improve the services given NCRA members and to greatly increase advertising revenue to offset dues increases for the members.
Submitted by Bill Parsons
During jury trials I heard the phrase "smokescreen" used by defense lawyers.
If the defense lawyers could make enough of a "smokescreen," the jury could be confused and not render a plaintiff's verdict.
Nowhere was this "smokescreen" concept used more than in the O.J. Simpson case where the policemen were put on trial and small iotas of inconsistencies played such a vital role to divert the jurors from the overwhelming evidence of guilt.
I say NCRA officials have used a "smokescreen" to sabatoge the implementation of Geographic Listing of the JCR Court Reporter Listings.
In 1998 I was leading an extremely successful campaign to alert JCR Court Reporter Listing advertisers of the extremely poor service they were being given by having their ads listed by seniority in a total mishmash mess.
Dozens of advertisers were so upset with the seniority listings that they canceled their ads, and I notified the NCRA board of each advertiser which canceled its ad.
At that time then President Prout denegrated the loss of dozens of advertisers who canceled their ads due to great, great dissatisfaction with seniority listing of their JCR Court Reporter Listing ads.
In President Prout's March 19, 1998 e-mail to me he put forth a total "smokescreen" as follows.
"Dear Mr. Parsons, ...I find it interesting that you note the loss of several advertisers and lay blame on the structure of the listings.
"Your analysis does not account for business downturns, increased competition for advertising dollars and the cancellation of ads in the wake of the enormous number of acquisitions."
No improvements to the advertising policies can ever be made as long as "smokescreens" are allowed to be put forth by NCRA officials.
As an example, the police could know that a certain intersection has the most accidents in a city.
Rather than recognizing that the intersection is a dangerous intersection needing remediation, the police could say, "Oh, well, the accidents are due to driver inattention. The accidents are due to cellphone conversations by drivers. The accidents are due to faulty brakes and equipment on the cars. The accidents are due to the fact that many of the drivers had just gotten their licenses and were inexperienced drivers. The accidents were due to drivers driving too fast. The accidents were due to inclement weather conditions."
By the above example, we see that the actual cause of the accidents, i.e. the dangerous intersection, has been obfuscated and any move to improve the intersection is totally downplayed, and the result is that no one will undertake studies to develop plans to avert the dangerous intersection by building a newer safer intersection."
Mr. Prout had only to ask an NCRA staffer to phone 155 lost advertisers and ask them why they canceled their ads. No such phone calls were made.
NCRA refused to survey its members with phone calls that would have taken a few hours.
Instead the members were given a "smokescreen" which prevented the correction of the terrible service being given to NCRA Court Reporter Listing advertisers in the large states.
Due to NCRA officials putting forth a "smokescreen," millions of dollars of revenue have been lost to the association and the dues have been raised by needless large dues increases.
The lost advertising revenue due to the great advertiser dissatisfaction with seniority listings could have averted if color-coded geographic listing of the ads by city had been implemented.
NCRA members deserve so much more than "smokescreens" when the vital interests of the members are at stake.
That's why I have pleaded and pleaded with NCRA officials to please not say whatever comes into their minds and to stop engaging in wild negative speculation to defeat the attempts of myself and my supporters to improve the services given NCRA members and to greatly increase advertising revenue to offset dues increases for the members.
Submitted by Bill Parsons
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To see what NCRA officials did to defeat color-coded geographic listing of the JCR Court Reporter Listings, I think we need a definition of "smokescreen" as used in my original post.
"Smokescreen - an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure."
Also, since the definition of "smokescreen" includes the word "obscure," I think we need the definition of "obscure."
"Obscure - To conceal or conceal by confusing, to make dark, dim, indistinct."
How can any court reporter campaign to greatly, greatly improve NCRA policies when NCRA officials smokescreen the issues and obscure the issues?
The losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in ad revenue are at stake.
Cumulatively those losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in ad revenue add up to losses of millions of dollars of revenue to NCRA.
The members of NCRA deserve to have excellent leadership and to once and for all have the JCR Court Reporter Listing ad policies corrected so that the section can again become a thriving ad section greatly contributing to the revenues of NCRA.
Bill Parsons
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