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From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ
[mailto:dsumner@arrl.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004
5:08 PM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11677] Re: FW:
Time Magazine
Allen Pitts replied to
Time a week ago Monday.
Dave
From: Pitts,
Allen W1AGP
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004
1:51 PM
Time Magazine
Re: http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,1009842,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,1009851,00.html
Sirs:
I found it surprising that a magazine with a
reputation such as yours would distribute material with such sophomoric and
naive comments as Lev Grossman’s claim that ham radio and stamp
collecting were “faintly embarrassing” hobbies. Not only did
these comments add nothing to the Person of the Year and Power Line articles,
they insulted hundreds of thousands of your readers and distracted from the
main topic.
There are over 670,000 amateur radio operators in the
USA. While I have no idea of the number of people collecting stamps, I am
sure that they too are as proud of their accomplishments as are the hams.
If anyone should be embarrassed, it should be TIME’s editors for allowing
this snide remark to appear in your work. You normally are much better
than this.
Allen G.
Pitts, W1AGP
Media and Public Relations Manager
ARRL
(860) 594-0328