[Imc-radio] Today's show

[Mike Lehman]

I think one of the major problems in trying to tell this story, from 
what I've heard so far, is that it is just too big to try to cover all 
of it at once. I would suggest to Anna that she should concentrate on 
just 3 important points in order to do them justice. Trying to tie the 
whole thing up in less than a half hour (assuming we would devote most 
of a show to it) seems to be an impossibility.

Zach's first point about IMC reporters taking their own initiative on 
this can't be emphasized enough. The credibility of this story rests on 
the skill placed into telling it by those who know it best, rather than 
thinking that somehow if someone from the IMC can be browbeaten into 
covering it that it will all be resolved.

I would suggest that the best place to start is for Anna or her husband 
to write a piece and post it to the Newswire. This will help the process 
of focusing the story enough to be workable for the radio.

I overheard some of Anna's discussion yesterday at the IMC about this. 
No one at the IMC is part of a conspiracy to bury this story. It's just 
that it currently is in a very problematic form that sprawls about with 
little focus. It is next to impossible for such a story to either be 
good radio or an aid to bringing some justice and closure in its present 
form. I know this may be difficult for Anna to understand, but she does 
her cause no help by insisting that it doesn't need more work to make it 
more effective. The best thing that would aid this is to concentrate on 
documentation from sources other than herself that support her points. 
Unfortunately, injustice is rarely resolved based on only the claims by 
a person that they've been wronged -- I've been through this myself and 
can't emphasize enough the need to concentrate on corroborating 
evidence, rather than repetitious, but unsupported, insistence that 
someone has been wronged.
MIke Lehman

Zachary C. Miller wrote:

> Anna Epelbaum wrote:
> 
>>I would write myself the possible questions and my answers
> 
> 
> IMC Radio News is for independent reporters of news to report in the
> way they see fit. I doubt you will be able to find any IMC reporter
> that is willing to read your interview questions verbatim or a
> producer that is willing to air such a piece. You are of course always
> allowed to self-produce such a piece and upload it to our website.
> 
> Due to limitted resources, we can not air every story that comes our
> way. Sometimes we can not air a story because there are no IMC members
> in a reporter or producer role that are interested in producing the
> story, sometimes we can not air a story because it's content isn't
> what the group wants to air, sometimes we can not air a story because
> we aren't sure of the veracity of the claims made in the story,
> sometimes we can not air a story because there are other stories to
> air and we just have to make a decision.
> 
> The IMC is under no obligation to air a story just because someone
> wants very badly to have it aired.
> 
> A google search for "Wayne Pickette" reveals among the top 100 or so
> results a few timelines of computer history that mention that name. A
> search for "Wayne D. Pickette" returns among the top 100 or so posts
> no relevent websites that are still up and running. All the references
> to Wayne Pickette that I can find (apart from your personal website
> which doesn't come up in the first few pages of google hits) simply
> mention him as one of the people who worked for Intel early on during
> the development of the first microprocessor. None of them make the
> claims about mistreatment that you are making. So I still stand by my
> claim that if you post this story to the IMC newswire you will get
> thousands of readers exposed to this story (readers who wouldn't
> otherwise find your website) and your cause will be helped. 
> 
> Because this story of yours spans decades of time, I do not think
> there is a huge rush to get the story on the air ASAP. I would like to
> get more community feedback on this story in the form of comments to a
> website article. I would like the chance to verify some of the claims
> that you make. Producing this story will take a huge amount of
> volunteer commitment to do the story justice and we may just not have
> that level of commitment available for you. 
> 
> We will discuss this at tonights meeting but I can not tell you that
> we will be scheduling a recording session at tonight's meeting.
>