[meteorite-list] Re: Falling Into Reading

From: Bob Martino <martino.6_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:37 2004
Message-ID: <001501c315de$33f568b0$0300000a_at_TheMonolith>

Regarding Ms. Polacco,

In private e-mail she compared me to a person trying to ruin the story of
Santa Claus. So it seems clear that she knows her story isn't really true.
The problem for me isn't even her error or knowledge of it. It was her
attempt to CENSOR another author while she tried to cover her financial ass.
I tried to ascertain which details of the story were true or at least based
on truth. I was very nice about it and gave her every opportunity to have
constructive input into the paragraph which mentioned her book. She
responded with a (pretty lame, grant you) attempt to intimidate me into
silence. She flat-out admitted that she didn't want to lose any revenue from
her little talks and that this was the primary motivation for her threats.
Compare this attitude to her public facade in which she tells children not
to wish for themselves or to wish for money. There is a word for this. That
word is "hypocrisy." Just because her books are nice doesn't mean that she
is.

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Bob Martino, Tucson, AZ

Can you really name a star? Read the Truth!
http://home.columbus.rr.com/starfaq/
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> Message: 9
> From: "tracy latimer" <daistiho_at_hotmail.com>
> To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Falling Into Reading
> Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 02:50:31 +0000
>
> I believe the problem isn't the quality of Ms. Polacco's storytelling,
it's
> that she refuses to acknowledge she might be in error regarding the facts
of
> her "meteorite", and is very aggressive about defending her family legend.
> I agree, if we (the meteorite community) could get her to stop passing
> around a chip of granite and saying it was a meteorite, that would be
good.
> On the other hand, she isn't trying to sell anything but a story, so one
> could argue that the damage isn't as bad as with our good friend Mr.
> Frass...
>
> Tracy Latimer
>
Received on Thu 08 May 2003 11:50:53 PM PDT