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Re: Brooding


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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