Springfield listener: Radio never warned me

[Martin Waters]

--- On Tue, 6/7/11, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:

> From: Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Subject: Re: Springfield listener: Radio never warned me
> To: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>, "Mark Laurence" <marklaurence@mac.com>
> Cc: bri@bostonradio.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 6:02 PM
> How can our Moderator be sure that
> what he quoted from the posting was
> even a direct quote from the Globe? If the quoted material
> is a
> violation of the list rules, then please tell us how the
> material
> could have been rephrased so it would not have been a
> violation.
> Absent that guidance, I have to say the material our
> Moderator quoted
> sounds to me like fair use.
> 

    I' m voting with Dan on this issue. It looks like a paraphrase to me. I forget if the original post that the mopderator disliked included a url to go to the Globe for the full story. That's always a good idea. But I'm thinking the ref has an awfully quick whistle here. :)