[Imc-web] Re: [Imc-booking] [Fwd: [Imc-staff] The New York Times Syndicate]

[meghan at ucimc.org]

i lean very heavily toward ignore and/or writing them back to say get over 
it!

-meghan

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Mike Lehman wrote:

> What do people think about this? It really isn't something that was on the 
> website, it was on the Events list. It is from a post Jenny Stewart made 
> regarding the opening of the original Back Room, I think. As such, it more 
> properly belongs in either their pervue, as a Shows issue, or perhaps Zach's 
> as admin, than Web's.
>
> My own feeling is that it was just something that was quoted somehow. I don't 
> think Mr. Ivany was even involved (first time I've ever heard of him) and, as 
> Ms. Wren indicates, the citation "does not directly link Mr. Ivany to The New 
> York Times Syndicate..."
>
> I wish we had the cash to send people on frivolous snipe hunts like this...
>
> On the other hand, I don't see us as having any responsibility for the New 
> Your Times' fear of endangering their reputation (which, it seems, should be 
> far more endangered by their papers's often unblinking and embarassing 
> stenography to power, like the lead up to the War in Iraq.)
>
> Should we just ignore it, write her back telling her to get over it, or must 
> we lick the bootheels of the establishment media?
> Mike Lehman
>