I Was Made An Unperson

File this under bizarre. It was recently announced that one of my former employers, Radio & Records, was closing its doors. I spent five years there as an editor and helped coodinate the relaunch of their national convention. Part of that was integrating an external convention. I worked with the company that ran this external convention and convinced my boss, the publisher, to hold the conventions together.

After I left R&R, I ended up competing against the company that ran this external convention, so I guess they began to see me as an enemy rather than former friend. Well, with the announcement that R&R is closing they wrote a blog post with fond remembrences of their association with R&R. One of the odd things about this history is that they didn’t mention me, and not only didn’t they mention me, but they credited another person with integrating their convention with R&R rather than me. They literally rewrote history!

I guess it’s an honor when you are considered such a threat that a company does its best to make you an unperson and write you out of their history.