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icarusancalion ([personal profile] icarus) wrote2004-06-05 10:15 am

The Draft

*snarl*

A local paper, The Stranger, picked up my article for the Collegian on the draft. But they didn't do my careful research and printed a lot of facts that are out on websites and forums, but are simply not true. Then they didn't credit my article, though they've obviously referenced it. She does reference an article last January in Vancouver, but her article has come only a few weeks after mine...?

Okay. I'm glad I managed to get some attention to the facts. And The Stranger is not known for their careful research and lack of bias anyway. But with all this misinformation she's managed to discredit the issue.

Though I do feel complimented that a major local weekly read and followed up on my article.

[identity profile] fourth-moon.livejournal.com 2004-06-05 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you're seeing the best in it, it seems.

Still, misinformation and having information of yours used without credit sucks. The only alternative, I fear, is to do no writing yourself (please don't choose that one!) or be so uninformed that you don't notice when someone's printing rubbish.

I guess you're better off the way you are.

(Any chance that sending a complaint to that news paper might have an effect?)

[identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com 2004-06-05 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
A complaint would be foolish manuever -- this is The Stranger. They don't care. But I could correct their facts, so long as I phrased in an entertaining way.

Icarus