--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tom, only parochial mindsets would construe calling in markers to
> get the NYT to investigate a story to suggest that something was
> underhanded. Forgive me, my idiom is a product of my city
> upbringing. Perhaps it is your natural proclivity to suspect us city
> folks.
"Parochial mindset?" I've said before that for my part, I welcome you
as a member of the Asbury Park community. I hope someday you feel
that you are.
As for what "calling in a marker" means, well commonly it means that
you are owed something. It is a commonly used phrase in Atlantic City
when you borrow money from the Casino to gamble - it's called a marker.
You are supplying the word underhanded. I've only pointed out that if
a newpaper does a story because they owe someone a favor, and that
person has a clearly stated postion on the subject of the story, there
is certainly reason to question the objectivity of the story because
of the asserted payoff of a favor.
I think you would be better served to take a mea culpa here and tell
us it was an extremely poor choice of words.
You can't really defend it. Honestly, if your biggest competitor in
the NY Appraisal world were found on a website claiming to
have "called in a marker" and supplied the "angle" for a NY Post
story about your firm, and a few days later the Post did a story on
exactly that angle, wouldn't you be suspicious?
I'm not asking for you to apply whatever you know about your
relationship with the Times reporter to the above. Only you and he
know that. I'm talking about from an outsider's persepective who saw
only what we saw.
You have to agree that you would be as suspicious as we are.
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