I don’t pay much attention to the
guy myself. He is simply trying to be
“Entertainment Tonight” with
the news, and is often offbase or makes
outrageous unfounded remarks. If he paid
any real attention to the news,
he’d have seen the National Archives
returned the materials to the agency.
Dean
Dean DeBolt
University
Librarian, Special Collections
John C. Pace
Library,
850-474-2213
From: Archives &
Archivists [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrea Matlak
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006
2:54 PM
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Subject: Archivists--the worst
people in the world?!
Does anyone watch the nightly MSN-NBC show called Countdown with Keith
Oberman? It is a sort of hip liberal news show where the top ten news
stories of the day are counted down.
He has a segment on the show called the "worst person in the
world" where he picks three people to be the bad to worst people
in the world. It is usually people who have done some awful thing
against fellow humans or human kind, for personal or political gain, or
out of sheer stupidity, or someone he has a beef against (like Bill
O'Reilly of the rival Fox New cable network).
So last night I am watching it like I usually do--I am making dinner
and only paying cursory attention when I hear the evil organ music that is the
prompt for the segment to begin. I did not even hear who the first and
second runners up were but I started listening when I heard Keith start
talking about how NASA seems to have lost the tapes of the historic
landing on the moon--you know the ones that show Neil Armstrong stepping on the
moon--yeah those tapes and how now NASA is searching all over for
them. And then he intones NASA ARCHIVISTS--tonight's worst people in the
world!!
Isn't it funny how people will always be happy to point out what you
have done wrong?
I am not sure how to react to this. On the one hand I think the
archivists involved may have played some role in the tapes gone missing but on
the other I am sure they can not be blamed entirely for the whole
debacle. On the one hand this is the kind of publicity our profession can
do without but on the other it sort of points out how important it is to have
archives and archivists in the first place.
Andrea Matlak
Archivist
Ameircan Dental Association
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