[PRCo] Re: The Tartan

[trams2 at comcast.net]

You would not know from Matt's article that he actually interviewed me before he wrote it.  Many things were mangled in the translation.  "Real" newspapers indeed have similar problems in reporting what they are told.  I can recall just two in which I was involved that came out as they were supposed to over the years...one at the time Drake was abandoned and a second when we got the material from Rankin Car House.
It's sunny today in Seattle...two days in a row.  The weather people are just as accurate as the news media!

Ed

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From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> 

> AMAZING ISN'T IT DENNIS, THAT THE NEWSPAPER IS WRITTEN BY COLLEGE 
> KIDS WHO SHOULD BE TRYING TO GET THE FACTS CORRECT BECAUSE THE OBJECT 
> IS TO GET A DECENT GRADE. 
> 
> BUT AS MY LONG TIME FRIEND JIM HENWOOD DISCOVERED, KIDS TODAY ONLY 
> CARE ABOUT GETTING THROUGH THE CLASS AND NOT ABOUT WHAT THEY LEARN. 
> HE RETIRED WHEN HE COULD NO LONGER GET KIDS TO PASS EXAMS IN A 
> UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN HISTORY CLASS THAT HE ONCE GAVE TO HIGH SCHOOL KIDS. 
> 
> On Feb 23, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Dennis F. Cramer wrote: 
> 
> > Why is it so many journalism writers constantly make so many 
> > mistakes? What 
> > ever happened to getting the facts straight? I get frustrated when 
> > I see 
> > mistakes after mistake that should not have ever gotten away. 
> > 
> > A 29 year old journalism major did an article on me here at 
> > Purchase and 
> > there are more things incorrect than correct. Major music 
> > magazines going 
> > out to educators that have cover photos printed backwards are 
> > constantly 
> > showing up in the mailbox. 
> > 
> > Yes, I make mistakes and they have shown up in the PTM calendar and 
> > my book. 
> > God (and most people) knows I am not a perfect musician. A few 
> > years back 
> > there was a stress reducing book entitled something along the lines 
> > of Don't 
> > Sweat the Small Stuff. We need to learn to sweat the small stuff 
> > and the 
> > big stuff looks easy. 
> > 
> > Dennis Fred Cramer 
> > Trombone 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>