> From: "Tom Derderian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Tom Derderian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 19:39:05 -0000 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: t-and-f: Jabbour is the future: was Letter...NYC mara... coverage > > The internet is the only hope for our sport. Jabbour is the future. There is > no reason to persuade the public to be interested in our sport or to dumb it > down for everyone and put it on TV. There are a thousand sports that none of > us are interested in no matter what anyone says. Let's care about those who > care. TV is dead. Webcast is the future.>
Sorry, couldn't disagree more. Can't think of a faster way to consign track to insignificant-to-the-masses status. All the bad network coverage in the world is worth a thousand times more than all the great web coverage, in terms of the overall health of the sport. You guys would have a sport that a coupla thousand hardcore people would follow and the general masses would never be exposed to. Within a generation, all the track fans would be dead. It would be the same as saying that because they don't give good coverage of the sport all the newspapers and magazines in the country (other than specialty rags like T&FN) should quit covering the sport. The key to the sport's health is mass exposure, not contraction into a tinier niche than that which we occupy already. gh
