This isn't the AP or CBS news. It's a much smaller publication and I'd guess that even if someone personally called everyone associated with the organization it would still take less than an hour to reach them all. Besides, my recent contact with GT shows that at least one person in the company did some external searching to determine why questions concerning Rob and future articles in GT were being raised and I can't imagine they would have taken the time to do that without first exhausting every possible internal explanation. And for the record my initial query had no details at all: it merely stated that Rob had posted that he had 2 new articles ready to be published at GT and my asking when that would occur.Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
Rob tried to dismiss reply's that came from the publisher by stating he only dealt with editors or managing editors. The problem with that explanation is that while my reply did eventually come from the publisher, my initial contact was with the managing editor who then forwarded my message. The email I received also showed that the managing editor had searched online and found the origin of Rob's claim and even contained a link to that page on this forum. There is no way of knowing exactly how much either one of them read of that thread but the fact that they were interested enough in the subject to track down where it began suggests that they probably made it through at least all of Rob's first post which clearly spelled out the details of his purported "new GT deal".
So at this point we have at least 2 people at GT who have knowledge of what Rob has claimed on this forum, as well as replies from the publisher stating she has had no contact with Rob in years and is not aware of any pending articles from him. Given what has transpired so far, Rob's claim to have contacted GT 2 day's after the denials by the publisher received by redietz and myself and was told at that time that his articles "have not run yet" doesn't seem to be remotely plausible. By this time surely everyone working for GT who might be even remotely involved in getting a story published would have been asked about it.
Given the facts and events that have unfolded, that GT was well aware of his statements and denied they were true and that Rob continued to claim the opposite, leads me to the only logical claim I can see which is that Rob fabricated the entire incident.
In that original post Rob gloats about how his articles are going to expose Arci as "the lying phoney he's always been". How ironic that the story turns out to show that the true "lying phoney" here is actually Rob.
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