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Originally Posted by Drake
No one here has ever provided a single substantive difference between audio and printed except as would be normal grammatical correction or removing of personal identity.
It is not even a rational argument, The power is in the enduring print, the record, not in the " nod nod wink wink we all know whar he really said. "
By saying Brother Lee said one thing but printed another allows you to make any claim you want about what he said.
Drake
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Sorry that I am not able to provide a substantive difference between audio and print since I don't have any audio tapes and have no interest in listening to them.
However, I was involved in the editorial process and would say that it was much more extensive than normal grammatical correction.
There was a three step process to it that I was aware of. First level involved college graduate volunteers like myself whose job was to read through and find obvious spelling and grammatical errors. The second step went to those that were English teachers or to fully polish the English. However they were instructed not to change the meaning.
Then the third step went to brothers like Ben M (before he was forced out) and others. These brothers were there to remove things that were not for public consumption. This was after the lawsuits began so there was a legal component to this.
I suppose you could characterize this as the kind of editing a legal department does to avoid litigation, so in that sense it was no different from much of the world. But to my perception it allowed Witness Lee to say some of his most outrageous quotes from the podium without fear that they would show up in print.