16 Dec
2007
16 Dec
'07
9:38 p.m.
My point was just about the types of newspaper stories one tends to see around the times of those organizations' annual meetings, not about whether they are comparable organizations to AoIR or each other. Regardless of the other factors, MLA and PCA seem to inspire plenty of newspaper stories of the "Look at what silly, irrelevant things those wacky academics are studying now!" variety. Conferences devoted to papers about Bruce Springsteen get the same sort of coverage. As Nancy says, mocking academics. Holly