RE: [Paddlewise] Kayaker Nearly Dies- lesson- long post

From: Joseph Pylka <jpylka_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 10:40:37 -0500
> A few of words of warning.
> 1. Once in a contact book, you don't get out.
>
	Not always.  There is a local reporter in the NJ area who occasionally
does paddling related stories.  If you are interviewed for a story, you
will never be interviewed again even if you might be the acknowledged
resource for that topic.  He will dig out another person to interview even
if that one might not know much about the subject.  His thinking seems to
be that you have had your 15 minutes so....  BTW, I don't believe this
reporter has ever paddled.

	Normally this is not a big issue but it does mean that if you have a press
release from a club or advocacy group wherein you are trying to "educate
the messenger", it vanishes.
Joe P.
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