He said What?

Cutter's Log - Stardate 9002.13.30.
Current Song - Right Place Wrong Time (Dr. John)


I wanted to cover a high school sports news event today.


I couldn't make it to the meeting in time, so I sent the president of the oragnization an e-mail asking for the results of the meeting. There was some pretty important stuff going down. I prefered to send an e-mail because the meeting was closed. It was closed because they wanted to shut out the media (they CAN do this; they're exempt from the Open Meeting's Act). They shut out the media because of fear of misquoting.


The best way to prevent that "fear of misquoting" is to ask questions via e-mail.


So I get an e-mail back.


The person asks me to call him.


Nothing angers me more than this when it comes to interviewing. I have an e-mail signature requesting that the best way to prevent miscommunication is to reply to e-mails.

I don't understand the verbal preference. There's too much fooling with grammar and speed talk. Heck, I can't bode well in conversation. Communicating via e-mail doesn't have me going, "uhhh, uhhh ...." It doesn't look good for me if I come along sounding like an idiot.

Now I would have no problem calling people back if I had a speakerphone, but I don't have one. I have found it extremely difficult to wrap my recorder around my phone and record what comes out of the earpiece. I also have difficulty writing down things from ear to paper. I write very slow, and if I try to write fast, I can't read my own writing. And I NEVER want to write down the WRONG thing(s).

So I have to stick to using e-mail to communicate. But they rather have me call.

Plus, I wouldn't have this problem if I were at a newspaper. But since I run a website on my own, they all want to know who the hell I am!!!