Hi Rebecca
I'm not heated at all, just puzzled by your umbrage. I certainly didn't
intend anything I said in any personal way, and I'm surprised that you seem
to be taking it so. I wasn't claiming, for instance, that you "seeded" the
story on Orwell to the press (hence my question about being a journalist),
and used your quote only as an instance of how, in the absence of more
complete information, such smearing seems to work. And I thought I was
clearly objecting to a general culture of sensationalist and manipulative
journalism in the mass media. My apologies for any unintentional
ambiguities.
Best
A
On 25/1/05 9:47 AM, "Rebecca Seiferle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
|