I was in the newspaper (Berlingske) yesterday and I forgot how bland journalists can make your carefully considered points seem in a page or two. I am pretty much cited for saying that the location-based system I investigated in San Diego was mainly focused on teaching and that all the students (and my self) put their profiles to open. These things are as such not untrue but just never the issues that I would have thought about as more interesting or important. But I guess that is the price you pay for attempting to reach outside the research community. Things get grey scaled. I do appreciate however that they didn't get all black and white as the questions some researchers get: Location-based services, good or bad?
Posted by Louise at October 26, 2004 09:26 PMGood job girl!
It does take practice to make your point in a newspaper just as it to most people takes practice to be good teachers -- you need to learn how journalists think and then fraise your point so they can follow. But it is important that you continue to do it no matter the outcome (I haven't read it yet so I'm not judging). We need to get rid of the ivory-tower perception of the universities in this country.. as well as show of the cool women in our field ;)
Posted by: anna at October 27, 2004 09:27 AM