Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Run Silent, Run Cheap-Shot

["Captain Nemo" <vulcania@hawaii.rr.com>]

Good advice.  I'd had bad experiences with the press before, but Armstrong
assured me this time would be different.

They wouldn't let me proof-read the article before publication (said doing
so would cost them their jobs) but I did get a chance to go over it on the
phone with FORBES "fact checker" Dirk Smiley.  Most every correction we
agreed to was omitted; everything I asked them not to do was done.

In contrast: the magazines I'm presently dealing with asked me to submit my
own story and are allowing me to proof-read the edit before printing.

Pat






----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Wallace" <jon@psubs.org>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Run Silent, Run Cheap-Shot


> After spending 13 years in local politics, I can assure you I know a
> little bit about the press.  My first rule was not to do any interviews
> over the phone.  I required all questions be put in writing, and then
> I answered in writing.  That way I had a record of the transaction.
> It was amazing how much more accurate articles got after I instituted
> this policy.
>
> Jon