Jessie cashes in

"Dudley Henriques" wrote
"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written by a
free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.

I agree, and I have a problem with the whole thing really. Like you, I don't
begrudge her the money, but there are mitigating circumstances to her "hero"
status to begin with. Personally, I feel she would have been better advised
everything considered, to refrain from being suckered into this deal. It has
lawyers and shady dealing written all over it.

The NYT writer is an honorable man. His point that the NYT "never" allowed
any writer to list their sources. Saying that the use of others while necessary,
was a dirty truth best left out. This fact was glossed over in the hype.

Jesse's story will be ancient history in a year, and she needs a writer who can
get it into print as early as Christmas. After that, she might as well be that
woman who was kidnapped and buried alive. What was her name? Yea,
I know, who cares... Ancient history...

The NYT writer is an honorable man. His point that the NYT "never" allowed
any writer to list their sources. Saying that the use of others while necessary,
was a dirty truth best left out. This fact was glossed over in the hype.

You may well be right. I suspected at the time that the Byline
Terrorist got the axe largely to blunt the awfulness of the NYT's
error in the case of the Reporter Who Neglected to the Place He Was
Supposedly Writing From. They turned a case of editorial misjudgment
and reverse discrimination into a case of boys will be boys.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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Gene Storey wrote:

Jesse's story will be ancient history in a year, and she needs a writer
who can get it into print as early as Christmas. After that, she might as
well be that woman who was kidnapped and buried alive. What was her name?
Yea, I know, who cares... Ancient history...

That'd be Barbara Jane Mackle. Took her 3 years to get her book out, and
primary authorship credit went to her co-writer, Gene Miller.

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