Comment AO Junkie (Score 2, Insightful) 301
>>7 hours a day. you know what? That's such a load of crap
>>I would say it's quite rare that I'm ever online for more than four hours a day.
Ummm...did anyone else find this amusing? It was as if saying "Hey! I'm not a junkie! I only shoot up a couple of times a day!"
I was sympathetic to his story...until I read that.
As for the NYT report, I have no idea what transpired, and maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle (as it usually is). I DO know several newspaper reporters who after an interview get irrate calls saying:
interviewee: "I didn't say that!"
reporter: "Actually I have it on tape, and my notes...that's exactly what you said word-for-word."
interviewee: "Ok..but... that's not what I meant!"
Conversation, when written out, can end up sounding very different to a reader who is divorced from the event/situation. It happens all the time.
>>I would say it's quite rare that I'm ever online for more than four hours a day.
Ummm...did anyone else find this amusing? It was as if saying "Hey! I'm not a junkie! I only shoot up a couple of times a day!"
I was sympathetic to his story...until I read that.
As for the NYT report, I have no idea what transpired, and maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle (as it usually is). I DO know several newspaper reporters who after an interview get irrate calls saying:
interviewee: "I didn't say that!"
reporter: "Actually I have it on tape, and my notes...that's exactly what you said word-for-word."
interviewee: "Ok..but... that's not what I meant!"
Conversation, when written out, can end up sounding very different to a reader who is divorced from the event/situation. It happens all the time.
