[PCW] Boat Reviews and reporting

[brian eiland]

I think its a sign of our times. The magazines are first and foremost 'money
machines' owned by conglomerates that don't really cater to the boating
public
as in old days. They want to fill up the mag with some text and lots of paid
advertisements. Witness SAIL & Yachting, two publications I no longer
read...crap

So don't offend any of the manufactures that are potential paid advertisers
Just hire some pundit's to write up some 'same, same old' text and don't be
bothered with real reporting or reporters. Use what the manufactures give you
as gospel truth. That's a lot cheaper overhead.

Come to think of it isn't that the way the whole news media in this country
is
going. What do we get on the TV news reports but the same old 'rewritten in a
different form' crap rather than real gumshoe reporting. How do you think we
got 'sold' this war so easily...misinformation from the 'manufactureres', and
unquestioned by these 'news rewriters'.

Have a look at this lack of proper reporting:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Kngf803dQ>

Brian
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> FWIW did reflect a prejudice on my part toward boat
> reviews in this magazine due to lack of consistency in
> covering a 'standard list' of items when doing
> reviews. Construction, performance, fuel consumption,
> price, etc, etc. Establish a list of essential
> information that should be included in a boat
> assessment, then let artistic license flourish (as it
> does).
>
> In this case I found both articles consistent, well
> written, concise and quite complete. Plus back to
> back reviews of two great powercats was a nice touch.
>
>
> regards,
> Bill