TAM4 blurb in the news.

[MoeFaux]

Found this in today's Review Journal gossip column:

SIGHTINGS

Julia Sweeney, formerly of "Saturday Night Live," at the James Randi Educational Foundation-hosted The Amazing Meeting 4 at the Stardust over the weekend. Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller hosted a Q&A session with the Discovery Channel's "MythBusters," Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. A longtime magician, Randi is at the forefront of demystifying paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Feb-01-Wed-2006/news/5656172.html

Yay!

 

[kittynh]

soooo, how long until there is a little blurb about YOU and someone else in the gossip section of "Nature" or "Scientific American"????

 

[Mattfn]

Is it really so hard for someone doing media blurbs to put accurate info in them? Or is it, as I suspect, just being lazy and not caring that things you put in print are correct? It's so hard to write Julia Sweeney was a speaker at TAM4 instead of inventing she was a host? Three sentences with an exageration and an ommission. Bad odds, even for Vegas!

But hey! TAM4 made the celebrity sightings page. We're going "mainstream"!

Mattfn

 

[RSLancastr]

It's so hard to write Julia Sweeney was a speaker at TAM4 instead of inventing she was a host?

At first I thought the same thing, but read it again:

Julia Sweeney, formerly of "Saturday Night Live," at the James Randi Educational Foundation-hosted The Amazing Meeting 4 at the Stardust over the weekend.

Or, more easily-read:

Julia Sweeney, formerly of "SNL," at the JREF-hosted TAM4 at the Stardust over the weekend.

It said JREF-hosted, not that Julia Sweeney hosted it.

They just tried to cram too much information into one sentence. The danger of writing blurbs.

 

[roger]

Perhaps, but then what is the verb in that sentence?

eta - I guess the "sighted" in the headline?

 

[RSLancastr]

Perhaps, but then what is the verb in that sentence?

eta - I guess the "sighted" in the headline?

Yup. Each blurb within that is a bulletpoint.