Thanks for the kind and interesting replies. This isn't a research topic for me. I just keep getting queries and so it seemed worth posing the more vexing part of it to a group who cares about such things. I just wanted to clarify one for Sabryna (that may have been unclear in my original post). I considered my encounter with the National Post writer fairly typical, if disturbing in this context. A good portion of the reporters I speak with (half? more? less?) are just fishing for quotes for a storyline they've already plotted out. You don't fit, you don't get in the story, or your words get turned around. The other reporters are the ones worth talking with, but of course you can't know ahead of time who's who. Best, --J -- Jonathan Sterne Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University http://sterneworks.org