Letters to the editor

Did Mallory make it?
BY PAT JOSEPH
(01/15/00)

I'm afraid the Mallory expedition of last year was NOT solely Jochen Hemmleb's "brainchild," it was the idea I developed as a BBC film treatment after I summitted the mountain in 1993. It took me five years to pursuade the BBC to mount the expedition to look for my great-uncle Somervell's camera that he unwisely lent to Mallory. Furthermore, it was the BBC that paid for over half the expedition cost, a fact that has been ignored by all the American participants.

-- Graham Hoyland

My favorite author, my worst interview
BY DONNA MINKOWITZ
(02/03/00)

It is well known that Orson Scott Card and I have had our critical disagreements in public over various matters. But this is the single most unethical interview I have ever read, and I've been trashed often enough myself. The interviewer lied to Card throughout. And interjecting her own extensive post-facto screeds is beyond the pale of journalistic ethics. As interviewer and interviewee, I've often been at odds with my opposite number. The ethical thing to do is have the disagreements out in the interview. It also makes for as more interesting interview than this kind of self-indulgent narcissistic wank.

-- Norman Spinrad

Stalking Gary Bauer
BY DAN SAVAGE
(01/25/00)

So your contribution to the Newest Journalism is germ warfare? No more hits for you from me. God knows what I might catch. With sincere disgust,

-- Christopher Buckley

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