Who influences journalists?

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

I don't know where my message disappeared to. What I wrote was something
like, "Many of the people who(m) journalists telephone are academics. I get
such calls all the time. Professors tend to be influenced by academic works.
So an academic work can help correct a myth if the professors who read it
then pass on the information to interviewsing journalists."

I don't think that influencing the masses is a lost cause. Eventually they
come to see that the world is not flat, the earth revolves around the sun,
religion is the opiate of the people, etc. Surely all the great truths
unearthed about the true orgin of Windy City, Big Apple, and the like will
become standard knowledge.

Which is NOT to suggest that Barry should consider corrrupting a few youth
with his iconoclastic ideas and then brewing a nice cup of Hemlock Chai
(2003).


In a message dated 3/12/03 5:35:21 PM, mam at theworld.com writes:


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> Uh, Ron... did you forget something? I don't see any additional content.
> Did you hit SEND too quickly?
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> -- Mark M.
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> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote: [quoted in full]
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> #In a message dated 3/11/03 3:42:33 PM, dave at WILTON.NET writes:
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> #> I'm not saying a PADS volume isn't a good idea (it is a very good idea),
> #> just that if the purpose is to influence journalists it is not the way
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> #> about it. A PADS volume should be directed toward the academic
> #> community--they're the only ones that will read it. (Influencing the
> masses
> #> is a lost cause.)
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