Newspaper Interview

[KandY]

The local newspaper (Times-Union) just interviewed me this morning about all of this. He was very nice and attentive and asked some very good questions. He said his angle is to make it a "Christmas Story".

 

CNN will be here at 2pm today for the Arron Brown show and tomorrow I have another interview with an investigative reporter from a local tv station.

 

Squeeky wheel gets the grease!! So let's squeek!

[Guest woaipw]

Hope they focus on the issue of the delay (no information, no concept of issuing, etc.) than making it all gooey and missing the point of the real problem.

[KandY]

Having no information is the point I made.... but the 'gooey' part is the by product of having no information and the delay in general.

[Guest woaipw]

Sorry...I mean the gooey part being the "email bride" part of the interview that seems to pop up more than the delay issue. This was how the Boston Globe reporter did her story.

[KandY]

I emailed has about that very thing. I told her while we appreciated the exposure, that she shouldnt have made it seem that everyone found our significant other that way. I dont believe there is a problem with meeting one that way, but our society does attach a negative stygma to it.

 

She emailed me back immediately and told me that her editor created the headline. I spoke to my publicist about it and she told me that is the way it works most of the time in media.

 

The reporter emailed me back and apologized and said 12 other people also sent her a similiar email.

[tonado]

I think they should call it "long distance bride" since it is long distance relationship. Mail Order Bride sounds like our brides will be shipped to us. Like we buy it. Actually, E-mail Order Bride doesn't sound as bad as Mail Order Bride. Just my opinion.

 

 

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[KandY]

The operative word is "order" - that is the connotation i didnt like

[Guest woaipw]

I wrote an editorial to comment on the article (it hasn't been published) saying that emailing these days to women/men overseas is no different than what soldiers did and do to men and women back in the States. How many "war brides" were there back then or now? But that is looked at as quaint.

 

Technology has advanced to let us "speak to the world". Unfortunately many mix up the stigma of these so called "order brides" with correspondance that has evolved from letter writing.

[tonado]

The operative word is "order" - that is the connotation i didnt like

K&Y,

 

Yes, "Order" is a bad word.