have you now re-read that post back to yourself several times after it landed
on the mailing list? it just seems like something you might do.
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:21:33 +0400
> Subject: Expat List coming to Jesus
>
> I have once again bitten the journalistic hand that feeds us all. I may have
> also drooled on it, but that's just part of the biting process. Anyway, I am
> sorry.
>
> I didn't mean to say that anyone honestly thinking that 20-25% commission was
> a product of a chemical or any other type of affect.
>
> Anyway, I was called on it, and with some redaction, follows the full text:
>
> [redacted]
>
> I find the idea of "what does the community think on..." brand of journalism
> folksy... you know, jug and banjo music, bare toes, and "y'all have a right
> purty mouth" kind of folksy, but I bear no ill will. I am not a Hoboken
> Penny Saver reader, but I am sure that (if it exists) it has a right to exist
> and to its own niche and readers.
>
> As to Moscow Times, no personal animus, but I think that the quality of your
> "feature" stories ranges somewhere between pay-for-play and well intentioned,
> but laughable. The stories on how "we are in crisis, but __name your
> industry/company___ is doing jus' fine", border on pornography. Articles by
> experts, with the ad from the expert's company next to it, set a pretty low
> bar.
>
> Do a fun experiment. Take a month's worth of Moscow Times and see how much
> of your "coverage" can be directly linked to an ad in that paper within 72
> hours. I had my students do it, it's good for a laugh. Particularly the
> legal expert and HR expert advertorials. Yet, oddly "paid article" is absent
> from those pages.
>
> The harm, if any, in this coverage is that it also creates somewhat
> ridiculous expectations by outsiders.
>
> I don't claim that you don't have a right to it. At the same time, if one
> gets their information so dramatically and so publicly wrong... isn't it a
> bit silly to THEN claim animus against you? Is it that I "hate your
> freedoms"?
>
> It does create problems when clients start asking about the Moscow (English,
> not published on weekends, with blue masthead) "Paper of Record" articles
> about stuff like 20-25% commissions.
>
> What of our brother France? Scorn and faint regard. [that's Shakespeare, he
> didn't hate y'all either.]
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