Comments on: Draw the line in the sand, VANOC http://strangehold.com/blog/?p=13 The official website of David George-Cosh Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:34:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: DaveO http://strangehold.com/blog/?p=13&cpage=1#comment-9 DaveO Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:35:14 +0000 http://strangehold.com/blog/?p=13#comment-9 After consuming maximum TV and print coverage of the last several Games, i don't think the MSM media alone is doing a sufficient job. Unless an athlete win multiple medals, is particularly attractive or is caught with drugs, they don't get much coverage. Indeed, there are thousands of athletes who train hard, save, and compete to their top level but don't even make it out of their first round and to me, they are as interesting as the "favorites". I went away from the Olympics remembering the more obscure athletes' stories along with the international relationships and peripheral events more than the big stories. We aren't expecting much but sure, we are happy to chat and provide expert advice which VANOC can chew on and use how they choose. Regardless, the dead tree and tv industry is not keeping pace with advancements in the way people consume information and they have become passive followers and not active developers in the new tools used to create, share, publish and consume stories. After consuming maximum TV and print coverage of the last several Games, i don’t think the MSM media alone is doing a sufficient job. Unless an athlete win multiple medals, is particularly attractive or is caught with drugs, they don’t get much coverage. Indeed, there are thousands of athletes who train hard, save, and compete to their top level but don’t even make it out of their first round and to me, they are as interesting as the “favorites”.

I went away from the Olympics remembering the more obscure athletes’ stories along with the international relationships and peripheral events more than the big stories.

We aren’t expecting much but sure, we are happy to chat and provide expert advice which VANOC can chew on and use how they choose.

Regardless, the dead tree and tv industry is not keeping pace with advancements in the way people consume information and they have become passive followers and not active developers in the new tools used to create, share, publish and consume stories.

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