[meteorite-list] Lighten up, it's just semantics

[Chris Peterson]

I'm reminded of something that happened after the great Montrose fireball on 
Thanksgiving 2002. As usual, I was receiving calls from newspapers and TV 
stations. However, being a big holiday, all the news staffers were pretty 
much interns, with little experience. I answered a bunch of questions for a 
reporter at the Rocky Mountain News, and next day was shocked to find myself 
identified in the paper as "an astrologer from Guffey". Worse, this was also 
posted online, and in this day of Google, the last thing I wanted was that 
association! So I called the RMN editor, and asked him to change the wording 
in their online archives. "Oh, no!", he said, "We can't change archives". I 
asked him what they would do if they had accidentally called a photographer 
a pornographer. He got the point, and they changed the archives.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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