Why doesn't somebody put both the Beeb and the Post onto the Tumlinson and Space Frontier Foundation story?

From: "David Whitehouse" dr_d_whitehouse@msn.com
Date: Fri Apr 18, 2003 9:00:23 PM US/Eastern
To: NASAWatch@reston.com
Subject: re Nasawatch

Dear Mr Cowling,

Sadly, and knowing that from experience I will find writing an email to you unsatisfactory and a waste of time, and having had your comments on today's nasawatch pointed out to me, for I seldom visit your site, I write to you to say that once again you have shown yourself to be biased and partial in you comments about the BBC.

In your trademark odious, pompous and typical way as far as the BBC is concerned, you criticise some things whilst conveniently ignoring others that contradict your point of view, and indeed your past behaviour. Shame on you, and you want to be a journalist!

Materially, regarding your criticisms, all I will say is that we quoted accurately from private correspondence between me and Mr Rutan about ten days ago. Whether or not he used those same comments to other media outlets is, in the context of the article, irrelevant. The fact that you on this occasion (indeed frequently) were not as well-informed as you thought you were, gave you the opportunity to make cheap comments, again.

I hope you will not take this private email from me, edit it, and place selective and unrepresentative comments from it out-of-context on your website along with sneering jibes as you have disgracefully done before. It would not be appropriate, ethical, responsible or honourable for you to do so. I neither give you nor Nasawatch, nor anyone else, permission to publish this email. I regret having to point this out to you.

Shame on you, and don't bother replying with puerile comments like, "feel better now." I am not interested. My spam filter will have it delivered straight into the trashcan unread.

Dr David Whitehouse.