In my opinion, this is an enormous learning experience for all members of
Omni including people who are, at most, interested outsiders like me. The
lesson: Anything said to, or even in front of, a professional journalist is
fair game for further scrutiny. Anything!
It's not surprising to me that this professional journalist, working for an
old-school publication, would focus on the permit issue as the one likely
to generate the most heat, if not the most light. It was predictable.
Omni people tend to be pretty open, generally a good thing. But here we
can see some potential downside. I think the respective Omni leaders would
be well-advised to discuss this event in depth, and develop a set of
guidelines for dealing with the press, whether of the old or new school
variety.
Just my $0.02.
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Laura Turiano <scylla(a)riseup.net> wrote:
I should be clearer - we mentioned permits in passing,
like "we are
raising money to bring the kitchen up to code, and doing x to meet the fire
code" but he didn't express any particular interest in that aspect.
L
On Dec 25, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Laura Turiano
<scylla(a)riseup.net> wrote:
Matt came to Omni and Jenny and I gave him a tour. He also come to part
of the
delegates meeting. He never said anything about permits or the city.
Jenny prob has his contact info. You give him much more credit than I am
right now. If he was going to delve into the permits he should have let us
know and talked to someone here first.
I can take the docs to the city if you explain exactly where they need
to go.
Love,
Laura
> On Dec 25, 2014, at 1:48 AM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> If anyone has spoken with Matt Artz or anyone at the Oakland Trib,
could you
let me know?
>
> As part of his due diligence as a reporter, he is contacting all sorts
of
bureaucrats downtown at the City about our permit situation and as a
result I am getting avalanches of emails from the City, there is confusions
all around generally and so I would like to speak with him if at all
possible.
>
> It's not his fault - I know he's just doing his reporter thing - but
because of inquiries I will now need someone totally reliable I can email
who can and printout a very large stack of paperwork and bring it downtown
to 250 on Friday 12/26 (tomorrow). If there are any volunteers who are in
town?
>
> Happy Xmas!
>
> David
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