It's a little hard to describe if you didn't hear it, but the part that I took offense to was the announcer saying that by identifying herself as an "archivist," she was selling herself short - that somehow being a "history detective" was NOT instrinsically part of being an archivist.



>I wonder
> who else was somewhat insulted by the fact that, when Mary Beth introduced
> herself as "the archivist for PNC/Riggs Bank," the reporter's voice-over
> comes back with, "But she is selling herself short; Mary Beth Corrigan is
> a 'history detective.'"

Leah Prescott
Assistant Archivist
Research Library
The Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA  90049-1688
310.440.6277
310.440.7783 fax
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