Earnest reporting or catty criticism? Fareed Zakaria, according to the Times, is on the short list of Lynda Resnick's dinner parties, along with "Queen Noor of Jordan, George Soros, the financier, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California."
Is the Times' Christine Haughney critiquing Zakaria or not? Resnick is well known for being a marketing personality, one that makes broad, unsubstantiated health claims about "POM," her silly juice that you should not waste your money on. Nor should you ever buy anything from her former business, the Franklin Mint, or Fiji, her overpriced water (see a theme here?).
Is a Resnick endorsement a thumbs up or down?
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This study from the University of Michigan used eBay to determine whether a seller's reputation helped them get higher prices:
In past years, I have griped at length about the awful, maudlin dreck that Mike Resnick keeps putting on the Hugo ballot-- see this 2009 post for example.
Just a reminder, if you're someone who's eligible to vote for this year's Hugo Awards, the deadline to do so is tomorrow. Of course, you probably already know that-- they sent out reminder emails last night.
This is the last of the short fiction categories.
get a life
Get a life ... this writer cant even hold an argumernt, loser!
plus; who doesnt like POM; its tasty. i see it didnt benfit your ugly self... try some it might help your writers block!
I didn't say that POM was disgusting, only that it was marketed in a deceptive way by someone who sounds like a social-climbing charlatan.