---- LACTNET automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> What a great! opportunity to be able to give solid answers about  "problems" with breastfeeding in a widely distributed magazine for pregnant and new families! Who cares if it has formula ads? This  is exactly where the breastfeeding voice needs to be! Level the playing field...give women the truth...
> > 
> Of course, one needs to be extremely careful about what and how everything is phrased because we all know too well, the one poor comment will wind up in bold print. It is good that a legal mind will have this chance.
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Interviews can be fun, but when interviewed as one voice of several for the article, the interview that takes 15-45 minutes is often compressed into a few comments per interviewee. What is said during the interview is not always quoted as one might have said it for the article; often paraphrasing occurs, which may put new words in one's mouth or a different spin on what was actually said. But as noted, interviews can provide wonderful opportunities to get one's message out.

Recently I was one of several interviewees for an upcoming article about BF multiples for a well-known magazine. Fortunately, I'd asked to see comments attributed to me before the article went to press. (I'd strongly ask for this re: any interview, because this time whenthe info that was to be attached to my name was forwarded,  I was floored. Info had been taken out of context and then reconfigured. I sent back suggested revisions (that respected article word count) and the editor told me that permission would be needed for any revisions and they'd bet back to me. I immediately responded with a request that my name be removed if it wasn't possible to accommodate the revisions because I wasn't comfortable by what was attributed to me. I'm not sure how this will end. If you read a comment attributed to me (or someone else) and think, "That doesn't sound like something Karen would say about BF multiples," you're probably right!

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