[ST] OK, I've had it.

["Marc Danziger" <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the LA Times this morning there's a major article on minor-league stock
car racing, AND NOT ONE INCH on Daytona.

Let's see how many emails we can get people to send.

john.carroll@xxxxxxxxxxx (EVP and editor)
bill.dwyre@latimes (sports page editor)

I interpolated email to glick and it bounced, carroll and dwyre show up in
the email directory.

Southern California is the American headquarters for all four of the
Japanese motorcycle industry. It's the largest concentration of
motorcyclists in the US. Motorcycling is approximately a $20
Billion-with-a-B industry in the USA (Motorcycle Industry Council), with
$10 Billion-with-a-B in sales from dealers.

Why the hell can't they come up with three column inches from a stringer?
Perhaps if we bury them in emails, they'll pay some attention.


MarcD, yielding soapbox.


>From: Marc Danziger <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: John.Carroll@xxxxxxxxxxx, Bill.Dwyre@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>Shav.Glick@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 07:20:10 -0800 
>Subject: Motorcycle racing _is_ a sport, you know...
>
>
>
>I'm amused and appalled in about equal proportion that there is perhaps
>five inches of coverage of minor-league stock car racing, plus a full
>listing of ASA, NASCAR, and CART racing, without even a _mention_ of this
>weekend's AMA Daytona races, the largest and most popular motorcycle road
>race in the USA.
>
>Southern California is the home of the largest concentrations of
>motorcyclists in the nation. In the nation, motorcycling is a $20
>Billion-with-a-B industry. Four of the five largest motorcycle companies
>have their American headquarters in Southern California, and other than
>some brief (and good) lifestyle coverage from David Colker, the Times
can't
>see fit to offer ten or fifteen inches a year to cover the sport? Even
your
>coverage of EA Supercross, which sold out Edison Field _three_ times this
>year was scanty and after the fact.
>
>Please let me know what it will take to get some coverage; I'm sure the
>million or so of my fellow motorcyclists in Southern California would love
>to know as well.
>
>
>
>Sincerely
>
>
>
>
>Marc Danziger
>


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