FAN MAIL & THOUGHT OUT PRAISE
FAN MAIL & THOUGHT OUT PRAISE
Sent: 6/14/96; 6:39:57 PM
From: ryantate@uclink3.berkeley.edu (ryan travis tate)
dave:
feeling frustrated or stirred up or frazzled? good. because i know you'll make a great piece out of it and use the energy in a positive way.
*but* if you need a much-deserved ego-boost, hopefully this will do the trick.
i think you are easily one of the most perceptive and constructive voices on the net today. i should introduce myself--not a software developer. a student. not computer science or engineering--political science. it's not patently obvious why your columns should appeal to me.
but you have a clarity of vision, a consistency to your logic and, most likely because your background is in computer science (an elegant mix of mathematics and writing), you are splendidly coherent and fact- and solutions- based in your perspectives.
it wouldn't make much sense for me to send you, a perfect stranger (publications aside), a heap of praise if i didn't have something mildly intellectually stimulating to add.
from this week's san fransisco bay guardian
: "... That's one reason why U.S. journalists constantly trumpet objectivity: when you are the only one with a voice you have an obligation to speak responsibly, and you have a tendency to become arrogant and insulated in an effort to ensure your autonomy, and thus your integrity ...
... It doesn't have to be that way. In a world where readers are part of the dialogue, where financial barriers to entering the market are lowered, and where news articles are living documents, journalists don't have to be just and righteous all the time." --CRAIG MCLAUGHLIN in CYBERSHOCK
in short, i think davenet is an excellent example of the type of journalism, or something like the type of journalism, mentioned in the second section of the quote. are you a journalist, then? maybe not. you check your facts. you write well, if not concisely. but davenet doesn't seem to be so much about objectivity as about dave.
but that's perfectly fine. and that's mclaughlin's point: the facts should dictate the news, the news should dictate the perspective, let the perspectives then flourish. if not in print then somewhere else. BAM--davenet, netizen & the like.
just some thoughts. if you've read this far, thanks.
btw, i was really disappointed when they pulled davenet off of hotwired, but the davenet site is updated more frequently and, i imagine, it gives you more freedom.
the way it should be!
adios/
------------------------------------------------------- ryan travis tate ------------------------------------------ ryantate@uclink3.berkeley.edu ---------------------------------- http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ryantate -------------------------------- "dumb yuppie! who could possibly fail a --------------------- course in miracles?"-andy bailey in alt.bitterness
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