[PRCo] Re: The Tartan

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Not Matt Barry...Matt the intern who worked in the PTM Store last summer!!!  That author!
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From: "Matt Barry" <mrb190 at pitt.edu> 

> "Matt" didn't write that article. 
> 
> But, Matt was interested by the responses it rec'd. Glad it got this group 
> going! 
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> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 6:34 PM 
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: The Tartan 
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> > 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 
> > 
> > -------------- Original message -------------- 
> > From: Fred Schneider 
> > 
> >> 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 
> >> > 
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