The thing to remember is that all of you have sat down and watched the 6 o'clock news and all of you have bought newspapers, you are the medias market, you all want the product. The problem is the perseption that the public have of media employees (journalists) as being unapproachable when they're out doing their job, it's not true. Like anything and everything, there are people who are good at their jobs and people who are bad at their jobs. Believe it or not there are good journalists out there.
The mistake everyone makes is when there is a mishap affecting your sport nobody wants to talk to the media and give them CORRECT information, everyone runs the other way.....wrong thing to do!!! Sure nobody likes bad news in their back yard but when it is someone else everyone asks, which aircraft? What happened? Anyone hurt? You've got to remember that all of you have a thirst for information when something happens, anyone that says otherwise is lying. So why turn your backs on the reporter at the airfield when all they are trying to do is get information correct? The media cannot win, everyone wants their product but nobody will assist them. It affects me personally whenever a mishap happens at my club because the first thing that happens is I get a phone call from my employer (channel 7) asking for information. This only happened 3 months ago when my brother flew a DG-100 into powerlines and was seriously injured. Please understand you all watch the news, in my opinion you should talk to any media that you come across and tell them the truths, that goes for all codes of sport aviation, in the long run you are far better off because they will never ever go away. Don Woodward _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
