OPINION / EDITORIAL
April 2, 2008
Juli Bongiorno
Executive Editor
E-mail responses: the writer's foe
The big problem of e-mail interviews
It’s 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night and I hear one of my Echo editors tell me for the 10th time this semester, “my source will only give an e-mail interview.” I throw my hands up in exasperation and yell. A few on-campus sources are holding a grudge about mistakes that past students have made and stipulating that they will only comment through e-mail. It isn’t fair to punish a new group of Echo students, who, in the first line of their mission statement, appeal to accuracy. Tonight I’m not yelling, but I’m just as incensed about this problem.(Read more)
The big problem of e-mail interviews
It’s 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night and I hear one of my Echo editors tell me for the 10th time this semester, “my source will only give an e-mail interview.” I throw my hands up in exasperation and yell. A few on-campus sources are holding a grudge about mistakes that past students have made and stipulating that they will only comment through e-mail. It isn’t fair to punish a new group of Echo students, who, in the first line of their mission statement, appeal to accuracy. Tonight I’m not yelling, but I’m just as incensed about this problem.(Read more)
