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>
> But how many will place something like this on the *first content page* of
one
> of its journals?
>
> "It bothers me when the technical communication profession gets ignored.
> Whether it's a story in the popular media that overlooks us, the failure of
> professionals in other fields to take advantage of the skills we have to
> offer, or our own ineffectuality in representing what we have to offer, I
get
> upset when my profession doesn't receive the credit it deserves. To be
> unnoticed or passed over is to be voiceless, invisible, ignored.
>
> "NO VOICE.
>
> "A while back, as I was paging through _USA today_ (sic), I came across an
> article by Donna Rosato titled "On-line manuals have pros, cons" (2 June
2003,
> p. 3E). It was an innocuous article, a filler piece in a special section on
> electronics. What I found astonishing about the article was the fact that 50
> years after the founding of our Society, neither the technical communication
> profession nor STC was mentioned in the piece, and none of the six
individuals
> wh served as sources for the story had any connection to our field. No one
> spoke for us in that article, and because we were voiceless, we lost an
> opportunity to make our profession visible to millions of readers."
>
>
That was George Hayhoe in the August 2003 _Technical Communication_. He's the
magazine's editor.
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