Fwd: [LiteracyForAll] Small Victory for Substance!

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

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> From: Susan Ohanian <susano@gmavt.net>
> Date: Tue Jul 1, 2008  5:58:31 PM US/Eastern
> To: LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [LiteracyForAll] Small Victory for Substance!
> Reply-To: LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com
>
> I liked her second message to George:
>
> "By the way, could you please let your subscribers know that you will 
> be
> covering the convention so that they'll stop e-mailing and calling?"
>
> In my message to her, I enjoyed laying out my media "credentials" to 
> the
> AFT (to whom I paid dues for many years): 8 years as staff writer for 
> an
> education magazine, articles in The Atlantic, The Nation, Parents, and
> so forth. I pointed out  that as Substance  Resistance Editor, I'd
> already bought a plane ticket to cover the conference in Chicago.
>
> The truth of the matter is that people writing for Substance know
> infinitely more about education than any mainstream media persons. And
> that's just what AFT is afraid of.
>
> Yes, this is a small victory, but it's a delicious one.
>
> Susan O.
>
> Rich Gibson wrote:
> > "Subj: AFT press credentials
> > "Date: Tuestday, July 1, 2008 8:47 AM
> > "From: Jbass@aft.org <mailto:Jbass%40aft.org>
> > "To: Gnschmidt@aol.com <mailto:Gnschmidt%40aol.com>
> >
> > "The AFT will give Substance press credentials to gain entry into the 
> > AFT
> > convention. We look forward to your complete and accurate coverage of 
> > the
> > convention.
> >
> > "Janet Bass
> > "Deputy Director
> > "Public Affairs Department
> > "T: 202-879-4554
> > "F: 202-879-4556
> > "E: jbass@aft.org <mailto:jbass%40aft.org>
> >
> > "American Federation of Teachers
> > "555 New Jersey Ave. NW
> > "Washington, D.C. 20001
>
>
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