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On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 05:50:05PM +0100, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: |
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> > As for why the Council, because thats what people suggested when I asked |
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> > which route to take when he was unresponsive. |
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I see, and that puts your suggestion of conctacting the council in a |
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different angle. |
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[some stuff skipped as it seems to be cleared up] |
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> > > > 3. Misinformation, misquotations and outright fabrications. Sure, |
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> > > > there's freedom of the press, but that shouldn't be used as an excuse |
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> > > > for deliberately making up quotes and printing intentional |
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> > > > misinformation. |
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> > > Huh? Can you back that statement up? |
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> > To take an example, there were made up quotes in my GWN interview, |
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> > however, nothing of great harm. I believe that time it was a case of |
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> > attempting to make it more fun, it is however a worrying trend. |
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Agreed, that shouldn't happen. |
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> > > > Another complaint is that the GWN rejects any writing style which has |
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> > > > any degree of character or levity. Any attempt at dececnt writing (the |
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> > > > kind that would make it into publication in English newspapers or |
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> > > > magazines, for example), is met with the claim that "the GWN is not a |
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> > > > humorous publication". |
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> > > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060522-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3 |
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> > > Look at the picture and tell me it's not at least a tiny bit |
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> > > humorous. Agreed, the joke is a bit obvious. |
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> > I can't quite see how your picture has anything to do with writing style |
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> > and character of writing. |
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It's something a not humorous publication probably wouldn't print - |
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but whatever. ;-) |
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> > I am not entirely sure why the council wouldn't be a good place to start |
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> > a discussion about this. I believe that the council members will wish to |
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> > help the GWN help themselves sufficiently to solve their problems, |
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> > whether that be attempting to help them think of new ways to attract |
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> > contributors or make any other changes. |
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I'm not sure how the council can do something here either, i think |
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discussing it here on the list may probably help solve some issues. |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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