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The buy ads and work with everyone in the photo , where is the sell out ?
Just seems like business to me.
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The other day I was laughing because I was on the Hill using my laptop that has a DMXS sticker plastered on it.
What a relief!
Jimi J
And Gibby, don't take it hard, you're just being lumped in with those lost souls at the New York Times and CNN and Fox... journalists? Hah!
By the time this thing is over people are going to make political science and or journalism degrees mandatory before posting on a motocross message board.
What role is it, exactly, that you think magazines play in the motorcycle, or any, industry?
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Any publication, anywhere, -that has advertisers- has to answer to advertisers.
I think Jody Weisel, Swap and DC have to make many decisions and judgment calls every day that you could never learn in college. Anybody realizes when he is being used by a certain company. And I am sure these guys are asked for favors every single day, by somebody.
If they are really out for money, there is a million ways they could make it other than subversively promoting gear companies. Let's get real-
you can't be a man...yer kissing ass on steve g like no tomorrow. hang yer head and slink the hell out of here.
One of them even won an award but not guy-b
Gibby I like your reports and your photos, keep up the good work.
No, it wouldn't have mattered in the least if it were Dungey. I don't know what that has to do with anything.
Yeah, I understand that magazines sell advertising. Does that mean Jody Weisel sells them? Hell, no. That's just stupid. Magazines and newspapers have entire ad departments dedicated to that. Writers are generally kept far away from the ad department. There's a reason for that.
So, judging by the response, not too many people here care about fair and unbiased reporting in the moto field, since, after all, it's one big family. I'm fine with that. It just seems odd to me that there are past threads about how MXA is biased toward Yamaha, Honda, etc., but no one seems to give a damn that those people they lump in with that bias appear in One's ad.
And Bobby M, I don't have the slightest clue who or what you're talking about. There is unbiased media out there, you just have to look for it. Those pubs don't grab the headlines. And no, I don't have a "boner" - classy as always - to pick with anybody.
I've said enough, I guess.
A lot of buzz around JLaw...I think the ONE add makes sense in a silly way.
Speaking of journalists and sponsors.
Did anyone ever see the Decal Works logo on the EGO MOBILE?
Or hey, how about riders running TFS stickers on their bikes every now and then.
What is a hugely significant role special-interest print periodicals play in any market? Probably the most important role. It's to spark and expand interest in the genre and the products of the genre. You do that by selling the products aimed at the genre. That's what he meant. 'Selling' doesn't necessarily mean highlighting only the best attributes. Contrary to popular wisdom, you can be honest in your opinion about this or that product, high or low, and still stay true to serving that role. Hi-torque did it by being honest and irreverent from the start, which gained them an instant following becuase they claimed they would say what they thought and not what was bought. Which gave them an audience to sell the sport to. And the off-road departments of the manufacturers were forced to accept their style, whether they like it all the time or not, and respond to their criticism with better products.
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