At 01:49 PM 9/30/2002 -0500, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
<snip>
>Two things come to mind.
>
>1- Not a single one of the protagonists came to tell me about it.  They all
>knew where to find me but instead they chose to grandstand.  I have no
>problems with grandstanding.  I have done that myself on occasion.  But it
>would have been even more efficient to tell me or some other director or Ron
>Evans about it and ALSO do the grandstanding.
>
>2- I am surprised that none of the offended parties even considered for a
>second that someone might have screwed up.  It could not have been an
>Interex policy and they knew that, by the simple expedient that Interex is a
>member of the press!  That's part of what we do!  No one realized the
>dichotomy, instead they ran for the nearest soapbox.

Given that both the current and immediately past chair of the Interex board
was in the audience and did not speak out and correct the situation, I was
left to assume that the Interex board was in agreement with the press ban.



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