BIKE: AAS

[D'Amico]

Just a note, I did mention both bicycleaustin.info and
the Bike Month site for Austin
(transtexas.org/bikemonth) to Pam, as well as
commutesolutions.com, which ended up making it in.

As a former reporter, I know it might not be her fault
on the web links, since editors will often limit the
number of links and just pick them, perhaps in the
order they were listed!

Anyway, grumpy Michael is right about the past
coverage, not to mention editorial attacks against
having things like the COA bike coordinator.

Nevertheless, times change, as do editorial staff. So
we're obviously going  to push for positive--and
hopefully meaningful--coverage for Bike Month, and
into the future running. (just wanted to end with a
verb!)


--- "Lane S. Wimberley" <lane> wrote:
> Ah well, something to be said for not biting the
> hand that feeds, or
> looking the gift horse in the mouth, or whatever. 
> I'm happy to reward
> good deeds, even when preceded by maybe not-so-good
> deeds, in the
> hopes of future good deeds.  I sent a thanks, and I
> pointed out that
> she missed a good resource -- bicycleaustin.info.
> 
> -Lane
> 
> Michael Bluejay writes:
> > 
> > On Mar 30, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Jeremy Elliott wrote:
> > 
> > >  I was amazed to read someone trying to argue
> > > that the AAS is remotely right-wing or pandering
> to
> > > big-money, big corporate, bad-guy stuff. At the
> risk
> > > of ending a sentence in a preposition, it made
> me
> > > realize just how far off the mark some people on
> this
> > > list really are.
> > 
> > 
> > Fine, have fun living in a fantasy world.  The AAS
> has a long, long, 
> > history of developer-boosting, enviro-bashing, and
> sloppy reporting.  
> > That you suggest that anyone who notices this is
> "far off the mark" has 
> > to be the most ironic thing I've heard all year.
> > 
> > Maybe I should cut you some slack, considering you
> probably have never 
> > been interviewed by the Statesman (I have) and
> seen them print the 
> > opposite of what you say (yep), had them
> intentionally lie about your 
> > friends (ditto here), or review their coverage for
> fairness and 
> > accuracy (ditto again).  But I won't, because not
> only are the 
> > Statesman's misdeeds frequent, flagrant, and a
> matter of public record, 
> > the fact that you've decided that anyone who
> believes the obvious is 
> > actually incompetent deserves a rebuke.
> > 
> > Yes, the Statesman recently printed a
> pro-bicycling article.  
> > Whoop-de-do.  You announce this as though you've
> made some sort of 
> > point.  Their printing of an occasional pro-biking
> article does not 
> > absolve them of years of gross misdeeds.  I don't
> let them off the hook 
> > for their crimes simply because they run a
> pro-bike article, but 
> > apparently that's all it takes to make them appear
> saintly in your 
> > eyes.  I'm sure the AAS is very appreciative of
> how easily its 
> > readership is swayed.
> > 
> > Given the choice between sloppy, hurtful reporting
> balanced by the 
> > occasional pro-biking article, vs. proper
> reporting but without any 
> > cycling boosterism, I'll take the proper reporting
> without boosterism 
> > any day.
> > 
> > As for the article, of course they list as a
> resource a site a year out 
> > of date and filled with dead links
> (BikeToWork.com), while completely 
> > missing the obvious (BicycleAustin.info,
> AustinCycling.org), or even 
> > BicycleSafe.com.
> > 
> > An extremely brief rundown of some of the
> Statesman's misdeeds:
> > 
> > 	http://BicycleAustin.info/media.html
> > 
> > Also, one of my favorite Statesman tips for how to
> save the 
> > environment:  "Do not buy products made from
> endangered species."
> > 
> > -MBJ-
> > 
> > P.S.  You ended your sentence with a verb, not a
> preposition.
> > 
> > P.P.S.  Yet again, the simple address for this
> list is:  
> > forum
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Get on or off this list here: 
>
http://lists.bicycleaustin.info/listinfo.cgi/forum-bicycleaustin.info
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>
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=====
woof...woof woof. Hisssssssss. Grrrrrrr.
D'Amico
damico
http://www.damicoaustin.com

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