Re: colleague of Richard McCarty
Subject: Re: colleague of Richard McCarty
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 11/17/09, 23:50
To: Jonathan Farley <lattice.theory@gmail.com>

Hi, Jonathan-

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, but wanted to wait until I'd gotten more details. I've been asked to serve as the head writer on a pilot that's been offered to two people with whom I've worked a bit in the past. The show would be a public policy/politics/humor/investigational program whereby we'd do each episode on a particular story that hasn't been reported enough or at all. The two folks had already run a couple of ideas in front of the execs in question to no avail, so now they're going to try to use your story as the pilot (or a later episode if another topic is chosen). Although there's no guarantee that anything will come of this, even if the show is not picked up or we are asked to compromise we are capable of producing it ourselves and then shopping it around, as we have a great agent, etc. So, I'll find out more soon after they meet with everyone again regarding this Vanderbilt story. And even if for some reason the TV thing doesn't work out, I'll definitely be able to get it placed somewhere prominently in print in addition to my usual huffpo/trueslant outlets.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Jonathan Farley <lattice.theory@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a colleague of Richard McCarty's, the dean at Vanderbilt University.

http://intra.ninds.nih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=82


David S. Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Neurocardiology Section, CNP, DIR, NINDS, NIH
Building 10, Room 5N220
10 Center Drive, MSC 1620
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892-1620

Telephone: 301-496-2103 office, 301-496-7832 laboratory, 301-402-0180 fax
Email: goldsteind@ninds.nih.gov


The Vanderbilt student newspaper called up the MIT math department chair about me before I even got to MIT.  So I think it's fair to call up the colleagues of people like McCarty and spread the word about what they have done, to get their opinion.

Regards,
Jonathan