[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scholl kept his ads out of Railfan for more than a year thanks to his lack of pleasure with my lack of pleasure with one or more of his tapes.
Something I forgot to think about: the comparatively small railfan press cannot necessarily afford the high moral values of the New York Times. Telling everybody what you really think about their products can mean a fast trip to Chapter 11. Too bad some of the advertisers wind up on the wrong side of 'petty.' >The toughest part of writing a review is writing something that a reader will >read. Do people read these days? Personally, Im usually quite satisfied with the captions. ;-) >How many of you read just the last paragraph? Made it. > Both in the retail and business press, I've often felt the only people who read the entire review are the advertisers. I read the reviews of the text's that interest me... Im sorry to say those are often a bit scarce. Last one I read was on Grande's second SPS volume, as reviewed by CTC Board's Rutherford. Major complaint I recall? Lack of maps. > Reamus and Railhead, we'd call ourselves, hitting the fast forward on the remote -- "this sucks, Reamus." Many professors of education might point to the above as the 'dumbing down' of American society. Perhaps I shouldn't follow these candid glimpses of railfan publisher's working habits quite so closely. > We often talked about using fast forward arrows for a rating system -- black arrows meant no fast fowarding was required, and a 10% tone meant that we wore the arrows off the fast forward button. On the other hand, this idea has a lot of merit! 73s, JP -- Tell Tale News | http://pw2.netcom.com/~whstlpnk/telltale.html Northern Pacific | http://pw2.netcom.com/~whstlpnk/np.html Historical Assoc. | http://www.employees.org/~davison/nprha/nprha.html --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1335
