Ah, well this is just weird, and that is an ad hominum question isn't it, but
and, no, I'm not a journalist either, and so was using "human interest" in the
generic way one might in conversation not from some 'technical' journalist view
and as for my argument that giving a list of names to the government is a public
and political action that a journalist might investigate that's based upon reading
the newspapers and various accounts, Ellsberg's papers for instance, the
Watergate files, of how journalists investigate these sort of documents when of
enough import; do I have to be claiming to be a journalist to use the phrase
"human interest" or to consider a list of names given to the government a public
and political act? I don't think so. Anyway I'm bowing out of this since you seem
to be a bit heated,
best,
Rebecca
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>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:25:09 +1100
>From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: orwell
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Hi Rebecca
>
>Your quote bears that implication, I think, whether or not you intended it.
>In any case, I wasn't speaking personally about you, but about larger issues
>that that deeply bother me (since when were you a journalist?)
>
>Best
>
>A
>
>
>Alison Croggon
>
>Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
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