Does the iDeafNews.com Violates DeafRead's Policy?

Jamie Berke's "About Deafness"'s latest e-blog posting caught my attention about the "iDeafNews". Some arising issues concerned Jamie Berke and the "iDeafNews.com" posting.

First of all, Jamie Berke's "About Deafness" posting on the "iDeafNews.com" seems violates the DeafRead's guideline policy #6 - http://www.deafread.com/guidelines/ about the links to the commerical websites. All reputable journalists and news jockeys and bloggers/vloggers ought to be really careful when comes to the apparent endorsements of "paid links".

What we should do about Jamie Berke's blog postings? Should Jamie Berke be suspended temporarily from posting anything on the DeafRead? Policy is policy.

Always enjoy reading Jamie Berke's blog postings, but always cringe after seeing the use of term -"deafness". When will Jamie Berke finally understand about the poisonous use of "deafness" inflict the societial attitude toward deaf people and reflect badly upon ourselves?

Many of us, DeafRead readers and viewers already knew about the extent of pathological intentions comes with the word use of "deafness". How would Jamie Berke feel about us apply "womanness", "blackness", "jewishness", "muslimness", "latinoness", "asianness"and other more? We need to think deeply what and how we apply such word term to ourselves. We avoid using "deafies", too.

Jamie Berke could do is to blur the enclosed commerical links regarding the "iDeafNews" as approriate tactic if she want to post the link to the "iDeafNews" according to the DeafRead policy #6 - http://www.deafread.com/guidelines/

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason