Ain't this a shame. The guy's response came back within a minute of my first email, I doubt he even looked at the site.
From: beefergrrl@hotmail.com
To: Howard Bragman
Sent: Mon Apr 19 2010
Subject: Chaz Bono interview request
Dear Howard,
I would dearly love to interview Chaz Bono on my blog, Obesity Timebomb (www.obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com). My blog is devoted to fat activism, in which I have a twenty-year history, with a particular focus on Fat Studies, an emerging area of academic enquiry.
I run an interview series on the blog called Rad Fatty. This is where amazing, inspiring, incredible fat folks talk about their lives and their work. This usually entails a five or six question email interview. I envision Chaz in this section. He is clearly a significant and well-loved figure in trans and LGBT communities, and this could be a great opportunity to reach out to new communities. He would be free to promote anything that he wanted.
Obesity Timebomb enjoys significant traffic, with most of the site's visitors coming from the US.
Please let me know what you think.
With best wishes,
Charlotte Cooper
Bio
Charlotte 'The Beefer' Cooper is a queer fat activist based in London, and currently a Government of Ireland Ph.D scholar at the University of Limerick, courtesy of the Irish Social Sciences Platform. Charlotte's background is in DIY culture, and queer journalism. She authored the fat rights manifesto Fat and Proud: The Politics of Size (1998), the novel Cherry (2002), winner of the DIVA Reader's Book of the Year Award. Charlotte is the boss bitch of The Chubsters. She blogs about fat activism and Fat Studies at www.obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com.
From: Howard Bragman
To: beefergrrl@hotmail.com
Sent: Mon Apr 19 2010
Subject: Chaz Bono interview request
No thank you
From: beefergrrl@hotmail.com
To: Howard Bragman
Sent: Mon Apr 19 2010
Subject: Chaz Bono interview request
Howard, that's a shame. Could you explain why not please?
Charlotte
From: Howard Bragman
To: beefergrrl@hotmail.com
Sent: Mon Apr 19 2010
Subject: Chaz Bono interview request
No
3 comments:
Rather makes ya wonder whether Chaz'd feel the same way himself. Does Howard know, or think he does, somehow?
I imagine other means of getting the offer to its target.
Very rude. Maybe I don't know enough about PR, but shouldn't reps be, you know, good with the public?
It's a shame that someone whose job it is to deal with the media and requests and such, can have such a rude response.
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