Joe,
If I understand you correctly, you would prefer not having any media attend
and cover the sport,
or,
do you confuse media coverage with sponsorship which infuses money and
certainly refocuses the racer's intent?
For example: the great dog sled race in Alaska gets coverage to allow people
to witness a spectacle of racing not available to most of the curious world.
Formula 1 is slave to its sponsors as well as subservient to Uncle Bernie's
whimsy and caprice.
Very different approaches to media coverage
Be Vigilant,
"LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth
LandSpeed Productions
Telling Stories with Words and Pictures
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Amo" <jkamo@rapidnet.com>
To: "Louise Ann Noeth" <lanoeth@earthlink.net>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: Anotherr race date on the salt?
> My name isnt Jack, but due to the forum, I will chime in,
>
> MOST folks involved in landspeed record pusuits, do
> so out of the DESIRE to go fast, to achieve a piece of
> paper with a higher number on it, and this piece of paper
> is the time slip, NOT a paycheck.
>
> It is an amatuer sport, not corrupted by money.
>
> Big media cares about big money, big corporations
> have big money
>
> Right now big money can come and compete, often
> their efforts come up short against the desire driven
> independent efforts, and the money driven entities
> like the big four or so auto makers or someone like Kenwood,
> seem fade away from the effort, seemingly (to me), to
> have more interest in higher media exposure venues
> such as NASCAR, CART, NHRA .....etc.
>
> now this might not be the respone you want,
> and might be already well known fact,
> and may be sour and ignorant,
> and may be more or less amusing,
> and less developed,
>
> I would hope it is not discounted.........
>
>
> Joe :)
>
>
> Louise Ann Noeth wrote:
>
> >Jack,
> >
> >What constitutes "big time" media to you?
> >
> >HOT ROD has almost 900,000 circulation.
> >CAR&DRIVER is more than 3 million.
> >
> >Is cable OK? like Speedvision? or ESPN?
> >
> >What about the networks? CBS? NBC? ABC?
> >
> >Why do you want them to stay away? What threat to the sport do they pose
in
> >your opinion?
> >
> >Be Vigilant,
> >
> >"LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth
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