<nettime> dery/miller

[Ashley Crawford <crawdada1@yahoo.com>]

Dear Nettime,

I am writing with some concern about a recent posting from Paul Miller
with regards to Mark Dery's editorship of Artbyte magazine. During the
time period Paul refers to I was Executive Editor at the magazine. Paul's
posting infers that Mark's decision making was racial in motivation. I
want to categorically state, having dealt closely with both Miller and
Dery during that period, that Dery's decision making in this regard had
absolutely nothing to do with racial politics. It was an issue of style
and approach which is naturally at the discretion of the editor - the
position which Mark held. It is inevitable in the highly charged
atmosphere of contemporary discourse that battles will take place, however
I beseech all parties to recognise this for what it really is; a war of
ideas, not races.


Sincerely,
Ashley Crawford 





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