Apparently it's not necessary for me to be actually interviewed or talk to a reporter for them to write the story.
Trust me, even if you do, they screw it up. I was interviewed about having a female boss (this was like 1991 or so), and I said something to the effect of "it's not fair that women have to work twice as hard to get the same respect", and the reporter printed "O_A thinks 'women should work twice as hard to get the same respect' as men...". Um. Not quite what I said. Ya, my boss was very cold shoulder after that. Luckily it was only a couple more months. Ya, reporters. Ugg.
Speaking of which, I still haven't listened to my Day to Day interview from moving day back in July. I was on zero minutes of sleep in 28 hours. Very afraid of how idiot I sounded.
Hey, omnis - any news about the girl in question?
IOmeN, I think I'm this close to bitchslap an idiot on the board I run, and doing so publicly(*), along with 80% of my sociology/anthropology class, who is, yes, that stupid. I swear they let anyone with pulse and ID study it, so much for threshold. I actually like the subject, K? Let me study in peace, thank you.
(*) I'll start gently, but for the record, he was warned before privately. I just like it better when they are giving themselves trouble within 2 seconds. He's just sort of a person that brings so much passive-aggressive hostility into the board.
And now, food, followed by 6 hours of classes. Yay.
DH's parting message to me this morning was "Quit if you need to. .... Um. Not that I have any idea what that would do to the finances."
Omnis - I heard the Day to Day interview after it was linked here and thought you sounded great.
Happy Birthday, Jessica!!!
Happy Birthday Jessica PMoon!
CHRIST, I'm sleepy today.
Thanks for all the indignant sentiments on Tom's behalf- he was super anxious last night and couldn't sleep. Poor noodle.
Apparently it's not necessary for me to be actually interviewed or talk to a reporter for them to write the story.
I will note that I was a newspaper reporter for years and have written for magazines for many years, and I have never quoted anyone with interviewing them or having them approve quotes attributed to them. In corporate writing, one does sometimes have to attribute one person's quote to another person who was unavailable and to write quotes for executives who want to be told what to say.
Omnis' story illustrates what I frequently told my students: The surest way to misquote someone is to write down exactly what they said, rather than what they meant.
I'm sorry that they didn't realize what an awesome catch Tom would be and hire him. Much job~ma for Tom.
Happy Birthday, Jessica!
I wish my realtor would call or email me to tell me how the showing went yesterday. Hmph.
I was very outraged on Tom's behalf. I just was being outraged telepathically, rather than by typing.
HIPPO BIRDIES JESSPMOON!!
As a journalism major, I'm uncomfortable enough with the un-interviewed quotes that I would call the reporter's editor and ask how they got the quotes, considering they never spoke to you.
