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	Name:	MythBuster -
	Subject:	Probably this:
	Date:	11/16/2007 1:36:47 AM

You (by "you" I mean someone at your magazine; I don't know who that was, and even if I did I wouldn't know if that person was you) wrote this and tried to attribute it to the writer in question: "Russell Lands has leased their cabins for decades at rates well below what the market would bear.

Expansion and population growth on this lake is not only inevitable but vital to the economy of the surrounding counties and communities. This individual that wants to stop expansion and growth would be saying "I've got my place on this lake and I don't want anyone else to be able to get one." Selfish to say the least.

Russell Lands has done an excellent job of leading and directing the development of Lake Martin. Forty years ago most of the other private properties around this lake were sold off in small lots that resulted in virtual shacks being built that people enjoyed using as fish camps, but actually decreased the value of the property. Today you see most of these smaller lots being bought up three or four at a time and replaced with one home. I'm afraid that the "fish camps" are fading fast. Progress is sad or wonderful depending on how you look at it.

We are fortunate to have Lake Martin - it is a wonderful asset for us to enjoy."

When he said "Don't print that as if I wrote it," you changed it a bit, and tried again. When he said "Don't" again (surely within his moral, and probably legal, rights) you said "We won't," and then did it anyway. Which I think is a reprehensible thing to do to someone who had just lost his mother, and who in fact was writing a story about her.

Follow the link to get the full story, and all of the emails; he tells it much better than I ever could.

P.S.-- I think you got off lucky. Had I found myself in that situation, I would have sued. And I would have won.

URL: The rest of the story.