Perspective: I always enjoy Ralph Nader’s phone calls. But when he called the other day, he wanted to talk about how many people don’t want to talk to Ralph Nader. The list is long. Politicians. Bureaucrats. Journalists. They’re all ghosting him, he said
And, speaking selfishly, Nader says he likes my columns about squirrels. But when he called the other day, he didn’t want to talk about squirrels. He wanted to talk about how many peopleThe list is long. Politicians. Bureaucrats. Corporate chiefs. Journalists. They’re all ghosting him, he said.
Nader said, “The minute that email, voice mail and the internet came on, somehow people felt less of a responsibility to answer letters. In an age of information, you have far less ability to get through to people than in the time of the quill pen, the Underwood typewriter and the rotary telephone.”Al Gore’s
, he was coming on too strong? Maybe people were seeing him not as a sincere, inquisitive citizen, but as a cranky old man?“My answer is I’m trying to crank up a dialogue, two-way communication,” he said. “That is not age-related, I can assure you.”
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