[Wamvan] My letter published, but censored, in G&M

[Natalie Hill]

**If anyone can't access these links because of G&M's pay-wall, but want
to, let me know and I'll copy paste the content.

Morning,

Earlier this week this
column<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/why-are-faulty-birth-control-pills-being-treated-as-a-minor-inconvenience/article14307690/>
was
published in the Globe and Mail, about the ridiculously low level of
urgency and seriousness afforded to birth control recalls over the past few
months.

I was pleased to see a letter I wrote about the column published in the
Globe and Mail today. Disappointingly though not surprisingly, they omitted
the section of my letter that called out the G&M for repeatedly assigning
the news to the Life and Arts section (not just this column). Of course,
they also deleted my sassy last line.

Link to today's
letters<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/letters/sept-20-safety-at-level-rail-crossings-and-other-letters-to-the-editor/article14426596/>(see
"Lifestyle issue?")

Would love to hear other people's thought on the pros and cons of engaging
with the media in order to bring attention to its flaws, censorship and the
futility of using an outlet's own platform to criticize it.

thoughts? other people's experiences?

Below is my original, bolded parts are what they deleted.


Carly Weeks is right to ask why faulty birth-control pills are being
> treated as a minor inconvenience, categorized as a "Type II" hazard by
> Health Canada, or a non-urgent problem with low probability of serious
> health consequences. As her column outlines, information related to an
> increased risk of unwanted pregnancy is news of a serious and urgent nature
> to any woman on the pill.
> *The very same question should be directed at the Globe and Mail, which
> assigned news of such birth-control recalls to the Life & Arts section, not
> once but many times as the story developed.* It is telling and ironic that
> Weeks's column lamenting a disregard for women's health was also published
> in the Life & Arts section.
> *When will the Globe and Mail take Weeks's advice, and stop treating news
> of
> faulty birth-control pills as a minor inconvenience?*
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