On 3/28/07, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sure. No problem. So here's my question. Why is Teresa Nielsen
Hayden, the former managing editor for the biggest science fiction
publishing imprint on the US, ever an unreliable source for a
question about publishing? Or, put another way, what is it about
Movable Type that somehow corrupts her words when her speaking the
exact same text aloud at a transcribed lecture or in an interview
would be OK?
Your implication that she is always a reliable source about publishing
is as misguided as the assertion you are arguing against, that she
never is. A big problem is that you fail to distinguish that for which
she is a reliable source.
Her blog is *always* a great source for her opinion. It may or may not
be a reliable source for fact, and is probably not most of the time,
no matter how often she's actually right.
As to your point about where her words are published, yes it does make
a difference. When what she says comes from an interview and is
published by an intermediary, we have that intermediary's reliability
to hang our hat on. When what she says is delivered in a lecture, we
have the host's reliability to hang our hat on.
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com