Word: guilt
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...guilt trip worked. "This is not a form letter," Hughes wrote in response. Hughes went on to say he was sorry, that he received a lot of mail and couldn't respond to everything. He enjoyed her letter and would relay the compliment to Nelson. And with that, Alison Byrne Fields and John Hughes became pen pals...
...former National Geographic photographer who now leads the Oceanic Preservation Society, Psihoyos learned about Taiji from O'Barry in 2005. He was horrified. "I told him, We'll fix this," Psihoyos says. Easier said than done. But if O'Barry embodies guilt-ridden heartbreak (his mea culpa feels like the theme-park world's version of Robert McNamara's in The Fog of War), the tall and handsome Psihoyos is the picture of confidence. He's also friends with Netscape billionaire Jim Clark, a very good thing to be if you're trying to fund a documentary. (Clark executive-produced...
...list” with compliments about “lush descriptions” and “compelling narrative voices.” I felt powerful, at first, but that soon wore off. I was left with a dull ache—it’s a mix of guilt and heartbreak...
...such internal racism was the key to self-respect. Now that America has a black president, Massachusetts a black governor, and Cambridge a black mayor, you appear to have adopted the posture of racial victim. Are you trying to keep alive the politically potent appeal to liberal guilt...
Journalists would be foolish, though, to think we can guilt people into buying our work in part to preserve our uniquely holy calling. (Try arguing that to a laid-off factory worker.) As with any other service, people will buy it or they won't. Yes, news audiences will have to recognize that "free" information may mean more sponsorships and piper payers calling the tune. But journalists will have to accept that some members of our audience are, in fact, willing to make that trade-off, just as they live with product placement in movies...