On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Andrzej Marecki wrote:
Gary Mamon thinks we should spend some time in making propaganda,
Well, you could simply react to what spaceflightnow.com has announced and just write to them. If they ignore you then, indeed, they are probabably biased. :-)
A.M.
Hi Andrzej, I agree with the idea of writing to them, but if we're going to spend time on this sort of thing, then in order to minimise wasted energy and avoid misunderstandings - or at least have a public record of media relations - it would be good to have a dedicated mailing list. There might be very few subscribers, but the important thing is to have the archive. (I had this sort of idea earlier when Ken Grimes and Alison Boyle asked about topology, but didn't think the question would come up again this quickly.)
So... could you please create the following list, with a configuration similar to the others (no access restrictions):
---------------------------------------------------------------------- name: cosmo-media
purpose (short): For openness in interactions between TCfA cosmologists (including students) and science journalists, either as subscribers or using cc: copies.
purpose (long): This list is for discussions with the media on cosmology research results. Suggested usage is to cc: messages to the media to this list, so that they know that the emails are on the public record. Science journalists could choose to subscribe to the list, or else to email to the list as non-subscribers and send confirming emails each time. Any TCfA cosmology people - including students - wishing to discuss with the media should feel welcome to use and cc: to the list.
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Any comments, anyone, on the suggested definition of the list?
BTW: I'm confused about your earlier message (but I'm restricting the thread to cosmo-torun, I don't think it's interesting enough for all Polish cosmologists ;) ...). On the page:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0203/22expansion/
there is:
New evidence: expansion of universe is accelerating ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY NEWS RELEASE Posted: March 22, 2002
A team of UK and
...
Seems to me the RAS is responsible for the document.
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