The Not-So Lonely Hearts Religion
Australian Witch Caroline Tully responds to my post on her interview in The Age. It seems her words were heavily edited and reworked by the paper.
“There was so much stuff that was paraphrased, or totally peripheral to what the journalist and I were talking about. I’m really cross about the “weak and opressed” angle, because that came from a little side comment I made about magic, (not the religion of witchcraft) but magic, being a technology often resorted to by the powerless, which I felt that I illustrated quite well with an example of Islamic women using magic as domestic power (the topic of a lecture I recently attended) – obviously that was simply a dumb thing for me to have said at all, seeing what became of that comment. Also, a friend of mine said that it looked like Witches were a pile of women out for sex, which is also plain embarassing as I’m not single or desparate – if I was, I certainly wouldn’t be confiding in some reporter!”
So a word of warning to those being interviewed by the press. Make sure the editor and the paper don’t have an agenda!
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