When Shirley Sherrod was fired from her USDA administrator job, it was the icing on the cake of journalism’s decline. The abbreviated video clip of her speech to the NAACP—delivered before being hired in her most recent job—had the blogs, media, government officials and White House abuzz…
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
How to Protect Yourself from Being Misquoted
Howard Kurtz’s article about interviews in yesterday’s Washington Post got me thinking about how we can protect ourselves from being misquoted. The bottom line: often you can’t. The best defense is not to say anything stupid, but, as we all know, that’s not always possible. :>)
What should you do …
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