Contacting Aaron McGruder
byron magrane
I am a writer and my editor assigned me to do a story on Boondocks
creator Aaron McGruder.
However, after much research, I can not seem to find a way to contact
him. If anyone has an email or an idea, I would be most appreciative.
Thank you very much for your time.
Carl Fink
> I know this is not the forum for this, and I appologize up front, but
> I am a writer and my editor assigned me to do a story on Boondocks
> creator Aaron McGruder.
>
> However, after much research, I can not seem to find a way to contact
> him. If anyone has an email or an idea, I would be most appreciative.
I'm curious about the point of this troll. Real writers would have
to know insanely obvious stuff like "through his syndicate" but what
does this person want to gain by posting this? I'm baffled.
--
Carl Fink ca...@fink.to
Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
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Mike Peterson
"Carl Fink" <ca...@panix.com> wrote in message
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> In article <235e7d75.03052...@posting.google.com>, byron
magrane wrote:
> > I know this is not the forum for this, and I appologize up front, but
> > I am a writer and my editor assigned me to do a story on Boondocks
> > creator Aaron McGruder.
> >
> > However, after much research, I can not seem to find a way to contact
> > him. If anyone has an email or an idea, I would be most appreciative.
>
> I'm curious about the point of this troll. Real writers would have
> to know insanely obvious stuff like "through his syndicate" but what
> does this person want to gain by posting this? I'm baffled.
It's that twit Ashcroft -- If he'd use the phrase "I apologize" a little
more often, maybe he'd remember how to spell it.
So, you guys lost him, huh? Maybe he's hanging out with Uday or Osama
someplace.
No, okay, I'll tell you: He's living in Fineview, New York, under the name
"Barry Freed."
Hope this helps.
Semper vigilante, dudes!
Mike Peterson
Glens Falls NY
byron magrane
Seriously, if you don't know or don't have anything informative to
say, why post? Ever try contacting his syndicator? It's sort of a pain
in the ass, I was hoping the "high council on cartoon strips" would be
able to aid me a bit. But since my request was met with only the
highest forms of wit and humor, I guess I'm not quite "good enough" to
enter the inner circle.
And by the way Mike, cutting on someone who misspelled a word ... very
fucking lame, even for a tool like you.
"Mike Peterson" <pete...@nelliebly.org> wrote in message news:<OZNza.1610$H84.8...@news1.news.adelphia.net>...
Mike Peterson
unprofessional that I couldn't believe you actually had an assignment to
interview this guy, but couldn't figure out how to get hold of him. Or how
to spell -- There are a lot of writers who can't spell, but a word of
professional advice: If you are freelancing, you'd better learn to turn in
clean copy. It's how you get the next assignment.
As to your reluctance to take the obvious route: I have contacted Universal
often and it is not a pain in the ass. They are, in fact, quite easy to work
with. There are many other prominent people much, much harder to get hold of
than a cartoonist, and, if you care about your craft, you'll know how to get
hold of them, too. (They are in Kansas City, if that helps.)
Incidentally, you will also have to learn to deal with people without
throwing a hissy fit when they don't just roll over and do everything
possible to please you.
As Huey Freeman once noted, "It's a hard-knock world."
At least, I think it was Huey.
Mike Peterson
Glens Falls NY
"byron magrane" <byr...@gateway.net> wrote in message
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byron magrane
asked a message board for a hand because the Boondocks.net site has
been down for a few weeks and was wondering if: a. there was another
site or b. someone may have had McGrueder's email address before the
site went down.
And thanks for the advice, I'll make sure to write that in my
reporter's notebook. I didn't know that a newsboard was equal in
stature to a SAT test.
"Mike Peterson" <pete...@nelliebly.org> wrote in message news:<LdrAa.2760$H84.1...@news1.news.adelphia.net>...
Chris Clarke
byr...@gateway.net (byron magrane) wrote:
> Unprofessional? Seriously, why don't you be more sanctimonious. So I
> asked a message board for a hand because the Boondocks.net site has
> been down for a few weeks and was wondering if: a. there was another
> site or b. someone may have had McGrueder's email address before the
> site went down.
>
> And thanks for the advice, I'll make sure to write that in my
> reporter's notebook.
Um, Byron?
You do realize newspaper editors read this newsgroup, right? And that
being combative when offered a clue may not impress people to whom you
might someday send a resume, hoping for a job in which you ask questions
of the public?
Just wondering.
--
Chris Clarke | Editor, Faultline
www.faultline.org | California's Environmental Magazine
Sherwood Harrington
: You do realize newspaper editors read this newsgroup, right? And that
: being combative when offered a clue may not impress people to whom you
: might someday send a resume, hoping for a job in which you ask questions
: of the public?
Maybe he's actually hoping for an internship in a certain Denver law
office.
--
Sherwood Harrington
Boulder Clique, California
DD DEGG CO
>was wondering if: a. there was another site...
http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/news/about_comm.htm
yeah, go through the channels.
D.D.Degg
"The humbug and hypocrisy of the press begin only when
the newspapers pretend to be 'impartial' or 'servants of the
public'. And this becomes dangerous as well as laughable
when the public is fool enough to believe it." - Claud Cockburn
Mark Steese
<sher...@rahul.net>, der news:bauja1$vpm$1...@blue.rahul.net schrieb:
> Chris Clarke (ccl...@faultline.org) wrote:
>
>: You do realize newspaper editors read this newsgroup, right? And that
>: being combative when offered a clue may not impress people to whom you
>: might someday send a resume, hoping for a job in which you ask
>: questions of the public?
>
> Maybe he's actually hoping for an internship in a certain Denver law
> office.
If Magrane actually is working as a journalist, he must have one hell of
a skilled editor, not to mention an inordinately patient one - what kind
of reporter tries to get a newsgroup to do his homework for him because
it's "sort of a pain in the ass" to contact McGruder's syndicate? The
same kind who doesn't know the difference between a message board and a
newsgroup, I guess.
-Mark Steese
--
there's a ribbon in the willow and a tire swing rope
and a briar patch of berries takin over the slope
the cat'll sleep in the mailbox and we'll never go to town
till we bury every dream in the cold cold ground
cold cold ground -Tom Waits
Sherwood Harrington
: [The tyro] doesn't know the difference between a message board and a
: newsgroup, I guess.
Bingo.
--
Sherwood Harrington
Boulder Creek, California
Robin
>
> If Magrane actually is working as a journalist, he must have one hell of
> a skilled editor, not to mention an inordinately patient one - what kind
> of reporter tries to get a newsgroup to do his homework for him because
> it's "sort of a pain in the ass" to contact McGruder's syndicate? The
> same kind who doesn't know the difference between a message board and a
> newsgroup, I guess.
And also the same kind who thinks email is the only means of
communication. He mentioned only trying the website and looking for an
email address. Syndicates have phones, and the number will be ready to
hand in a newsroom, of all places. Even a freelancer should know how
to use the standard directories -- or, if you like, online directories
or the syndicate website -- to find a phone number.
Using email to make first direct contact to a celebrity to set up a
formal interview smacks of amateurism to me. I had the same thought
someone else mentioned -- that our "journalist" is on the high school
paper. His later messages are consistent with that (reporter's
notebook? SAT test?). No shame at all in being a high school reporter,
but if that's the case, Byron, you'd have gotten more sympathetic
response on this group if you'd have said so from the start. There's
lots of us newsies and ex-newsies here who are happy to point aspiring
journalists in the right direction. There's far less sympathy for
someone who should already know how to do a job and appears to be too
lazy to do it right.
--Robin
former newspaper staff writer and section editor
current freelance journalist
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