Kirtan update

I know I just posted the one below, but I thought this definitely deserved an update: since the last time I posted (approximately fifteen minutes ago) this woman emailed me again, TWICE. Once, she asked to see the article before it is published, and again to request the publishing date be pushed until mid-June, which is apparently closer to her event. I didn't really know how to handle the situation, so I asked my editor for help--he said to email her back and say no, she can't see the story (that I knew even from working on The Independent: you never, ever let anyone bully you into seeing the story before it is published - if it gets out of control, you simply divert to Ms. Buckley Harmon, our faculty advisor). The main point behind this is that in the end, newspapers are a business: if we release stories before they are printed, then why would people want to pay for articles in an actual newspaper that they got for free AND ahead of time? Anyway, the same thing happened here -- but it was worse, because this woman is also a journalist/writer, so she knows the rules of the newspaper and tried that anyway. That makes me really angry, because she knows that I am an intern, and I think she is trying to take advantage of the fact that I might not know very much about newspapers and thus, I would naively send her the story without even asking if it was an okay thing to do. Well, she was wrong: even if I didn't know that sending an unpublished story was a big no-no, I am smart enough to run something like that by an editor or at least someone more experienced when it seems like something shady like that. I sent that woman an email telling her to call my editor, because I am not going to deal with her trying to bully me anymore!