[meteorite-list] my response to an approach by a journalist

2013-03-02 Thread jim_brady611
I run an ad in Ireland thats been up for a couple of years now and I was approached by a journo who wanted to talk to me and maybe do a piece.I googled him and saw his work and immediately knew I wanted nothing to do with him or his article.You can see my response to him about halfway down the

Re: [meteorite-list] my response to an approach by a journalist

2013-03-02 Thread Bob King
Hi everyone, As a journalist (I'm a newspaper photographer) and someone who works with journalists every day I have a few thoughts on this topic. In newsrooms and TV stations across the U.S. the number of reporters is dwindling. The few left are asked to do stories well outside their areas of

Re: [meteorite-list] my response to an approach by a journalist

2013-03-02 Thread Carl Agee
Bob, Good points! Ideally we should engage the press and tell our story. One publication that I interviewed with recently really impressed me, because they had a fact-checker who called me up about a week after the interview. She literally went through the interview question by question asking me

Re: [meteorite-list] my response to an approach by a journalist

2013-03-02 Thread Anne Black
Thank you Bob. After the NYT published their article I tried repeatedly to contact Bill Broad by phone and emails but he never responded to either. If you know of any other ways to repair the damage he caused I really would like to know. Also I did give an interview to a reporter from

Re: [meteorite-list] my response to an approach by a journalist

2013-03-02 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Nick is a great person to have on our side, because he fully understands the special relationship between private dealers/hunters and science. The media can beat the black market dead horse all they want, but the simple fact of the matter is that no black market exists today. Now, if the