Guys-It's Easter Sunday, enough already
John McVictor Harbor
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> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:38:29 +1000
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] birding-aus Digest, Vol 61, Issue 34
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> Carl
>
> I've been reading today about the two journalists who have just lost their
> lives in Libya.
>
> And it made me appreciate... just how small-minded some people can be.
>
> Greg Roberts
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Clifford
> Sent: Sunday, 24 April 2011 1:24 PM
> To: Greg Roberts
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] birding-aus Digest, Vol 61, Issue 34
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> Greg,
>
> I have had many dealings with journalists in the past. Sufficient that
> I ended up refusing to write any more press releases for my employer,
> the reason being that the P Rs inevitably so mangled, that I found
> that I was wasting my employers time in writing them. The press
> releases were written at my employers normal Flesch-Kincaid level of
> 90 and a Gunning Fog Index of under 20.
>
> As for the error being an easy mistake to make, I don't think it was
> really a mistake, but more like sloppy research.
>
> Perhaps I should stop watching "media Watch". Pity, as it is probably
> my favourite TV show.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
>
>
> On 24/04/2011, at 1:05 PM, Greg Roberts wrote:
>
> Put a sock in it Carl. It's an easy enough mistake to make. Forget the
> cheap
> shots at a profession I presume you know scant about, and enjoy the
> article
> for what it is.
>
>
> ""Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:10:14 +1000
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> To: Chris Charles <>
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Fatal Brush with Owl
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> Many residents of Sydney's Upper North Shore would be saying " More
> Power to the Owls". Pity the journo could not get the spelling of
> Noisy Miner right. But then, hey, s/he/it is only a journalist and
> after all, they only deal with facts , not words.""
>
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