Re: Brooding
- Subject: Re: [GWL] Brooding
- From: Nan Sterman T*@PlantSoup.Com
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:47:40 -0700
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Title: Re: [GWL] Brooding
Reminds me about an email I received not long ago.
I freelance for a local newspaper which recently published an
article on succulents. Just after the article was published, I
received an email from someone working at a small, local succulent
nursery, railing on the newspaper for not being in contact with them,
not mentioning them, etc. in that article.
The writer acknowledged that I didn't write the article,
but clearly, they took the opportunity to vent at me. The
suggestion was that I somehow had or should have some
responsibility for which nurseries were mentioned in the
articles.
What really frosted me was the person's tone. - just full of piss
and vinegar.
I had to wonder why the writer felt the need to vent at
me? Did she really think that by chastising me, she were
going to get me to write something, let alone anything
nice about the nursery? I don't even know the person, though
I know the nursery and think highly of it. I have even proposed
a story to the same newspaper on that nursery. But now, I am
reconsidering that story.
I wanted to write a calm note telling that person that her
approach was more harmful to their employer than helpful, but I was
too irritated so I decided to wait before responding.
In the end, I decided that silence was a better response than
anything else.
Anyone else had a similar experience?
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Nan
Sterman
Plant Soup (TM)
PO Box 231034
Encinitas, CA
92023
760.634.2902 (voice)
Talkingpoints@PlantSoup.Com
760.634.2957 (fax)
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