> Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > If Brad actually deigned to read my stuff on pen-l, he wouldn't > > post the
>following kind of nonsense. However, he did read Rob's
> > contributions, so there must be some kind of political dyslexia > > here...
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> keep it cool.
Yeah, but it does get frustrating when you write odes to diversity, putting
'voice' at the very centre of the role of media, cite sources, critique
methodology, empirically refute the 'results', suggest alternative approaches
to the issue etc - and your interlocutor ignores it all and then tells the
world you're siding with the very embodiment of 19th century repression and
autocracy! Brad's language wasn't harsh (indeed he's usually a beaut read),
but deliberate misrepresentation (to let it pass as a misreading of so many
clearly written posts is to do so intelligent a man an injustice) and then
accusations that we're "taking sides with Metternich" (!!) - well, that
strikes me as naughty enough to warrant just a little indignation.
I mean, what's a coke-sniffer or a political dyslexic compared to a
Metternich?! I reckon Michael and Jim showed admirable restraint, myself.
'Nuff said.
Rob.
