--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "bluebishop82" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>
I am quite aware of what it means.
> You are supplying the word underhanded.
I think you, purely on the basis of me getting the NYT to see if
there was a story here it was interested in, that you made negative
remarks and connotations about the NYT and Ron Smothers. Now, it is
true that I am my own biggest fan, but I do have at least my toes
scraping the ground and my head is not that big enough (yet) to fool
myself or anyone else that I could sway the NYT 1) to write a story
or 2) affect what the story is. You give me too much credit sirrah.
> 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.
See above, I think I covered it.
> I think you would be better served to take a mea culpa here and
tell
> us it was an extremely poor choice of words.
>
>
No doubt I have been guilty of that more than once. What words?
Marker? If I used influenced, begged, cajoled or some other word I
am more than certain you would take issue with it as well. That is
your modus operandi Tom, isn't it? Argue for arguement sake.
I really find your latest stance not only parochial, but downright
juvenile, and this will be the last time I respond to it. I think I
have made it clear wha transpired. I asked an acquiantance a the NYT
to call the NJ editor telling them the ooutlines of the story, which
by the way is taken from the city script (that they had given a
deadline to Partners for the waterfront). It so happens the reporter
was already working on a story about AP. We spoke and he came down
and investigated for himself. He was free to talk to anyone and
spoke to the governing body. I even introduced him to you at the
council meeting so that he could get the view from the far right,
the moral majority and the biggest expert on AP.
> You have to agree that you would be as suspicious as we are.
I think the more correct characterization would be paranoid and
petty.
Now had I been able to influence what was written (and in fact if
anything at all was written), that would have been a story worth
reading. It is obvious that the local newspapers here, including the
APP, Coaster and TCN are not interested in reporting the facts and
the truth. They are only interested in selling advertizing and their
own agendas.
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