Subject: | Re: [RFI] WSJ-BPL |
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From: | Mike Coslo <mcoslo@adelphia.net> |
Date: | Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:01:13 -0500 |
List-post: | <mailto:rfi@contesting.com> |
Jim Brown wrote:On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:11:53 -0000, Jim Jarvis wrote:I agree with everything up until your last paragraph, Jim. I don't think that the cure is having an engineer do the writing, I believe it is having a writer that knows how to talk to engineers. The engineer by training will profess in his or her field, and at least the ones I know will usually defer to another once the subject matter is not what they have been trained in. Wonderful for engineering, but not for writing. Much better a technically oriented writer that can communicate with the "smart guys". I agree that having non-technical people trying to write technical based stories is a bad thing. One of the problems is that the non-technical writer is listening to the Marketing wonks that are pitching their sell to him in a language he or she can understand. They know *very* well how to do that. We're showing a ham working mobile. Lighthearted mode on: Possible ARS oriented commercial: A hurricane tears a southern town apart. An operator is trying to get a message through to another place to order medical supplies. The station on the other end keeps asking him to repeat because of all the electrical noise. Cut to a dark room, with a teenager surfing the web with a buddy. One turns to the other, saying "Wow, I'm glad we got BPL, I've never been able to download the pix from "Barely legal Babes of (Insert that same city's name here) so fast before we got BPL!" Screen goes black with scrolling text: We lost our emergency communications - at least our kids can download porn! - Support BPL??? Lighthearted mode off.............. maybe. - Mike KB3EIA -
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