[Peace-discuss] Re:Re: [Peace] Sun, 11/16 -- TODAY! -- Amy Goodman on Media

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think an objection like this qualifies as the sort of prudery I
mentioned last week.  --CGE


On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, jencart wrote:

> Dear Sarah Ruth Wiseman and Other Friends--
> 
> I was just being kinda funny and cutsy/mainsteam media
> announcerish..... Apologies to anyone else who tho't I was being
> inappropriately proprietary.  And no, you don't REALLY have to plan
> your lives around this.
> 
> Jenifer C.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> sure we want to bask in the reflection of McChesney's accomplishments
> by associating ourselves with him ("our own"). but pride in others'
> deeds could be expressed in less appropriating ways than laying claim
> to the accomplishers as belonging to us. fact is, we wish to belong to
> them. language is the easy way to establish a nonexistent fact. "our
> own" just sounds smarmy to me. McChesney is his own. that's how he
> gets so much done. we need a better way to describe admiration and
> thanks than the ownership adjective.
> 
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, jencart wrote:
> 
> > > The wonderful Amy Goodman will be on Media Matters @ 1p today on
> AM 580 interviewed by our own wonderful Bob McChesney.  Plan yr lives
> around this!!! > > Jenifer C. > >
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