Correction
Today I tracked down a copy of Send and I found that it has the same list of commandments the P-I printed but different illustrations. So where the P-I illustrated the Second Commandment, The e-mail that insults you so badly, you have to get up from your desk, with the unbelievably illiterate example "From what planet do you reside?", the actual example in the book is "HOW CAN YOU NOT HAVE DONE THAT THING?!!!!"
So it turns out that I should have been mocking not the authors of Send (not for that specific thing, anyway), but P-I reporter Andrea James and her editors. My mistake was in trusting the P-I to cite a source accurately. Don't Trust Snakes regrets the error.
Labels: local Seattle media, mocking others
posted at 8:27 PM
2 Comments:
The examples cited in the P-I article were the ones given while David Shipley was speaking to a group of business people in Seattle. The P-I did not make them up.
Thank you, anonymous commenter (hostname "gate.seattle-pi.com") . . and thank me for having an anonymous source policy more lenient than those of reputable newspapers.
I have to note, as I did in the blog entry, that the P-I published the list in question over the legend "Source: 'Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home'". It did not say "Source: Speech by David Shipley".
It does make you wonder at what point the P-I would elect not to print an example from a speech, or to check it against the contents fo the book. What if Shipley had said ". . . for example, 'Your planetary residence delenda est, fool!'"? This is no less bewildering than what he did say—though arguably grammatical—and perhaps just slightly weirder. Would they have printed it verbatim?
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