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Re: Macleans blurb
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Thu, 16 Aug 2001 03:15:07 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.vlc, Dean Husby writes:
> Robin Sather wrote:
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> > I picked up the latest issue of Macleans and there we are! Find the
> > August 20th issue (ZAP! on the cover). We're mentioned in the
> > "Overtures" section on page 11. Once again, our press release is
> > misconstrued, however, and proves that the cameraman/reporter dude
> > that visited never even spoke to the person who actually wrote up the
> > copy. Unbelievable! We're going to have to be VERY careful about the
> > wording of any future press releases.
Congratulations on the exposure. But I think the writer is just doing what
newspapers do: they will find an "angle" somewhere and make sure it comes
out on top, even when it diminishes what you've done or said.
I think it's why they call them "stories". You are just a character and they
are the author.
After you've been in one, reading the papers is never quite the same thing.
-Erik
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