RE: [HoE] Re: Help [OT]

[Michael <martin_etc@yahoo.com>]

No, I'm writing on the "what the media did is bad"
aspect of these cases... blaming roleplaying games
falls into "media bad" :)

--- Eric Tolliver <e.tolliver@home.com> wrote:
> My point is if its a good article essay or
> assignment he would not need to
> look for the trash he was looking for. I wouldn't
> even mention those
> instances he was trying to find info on. Thats why I
> think what hes writing
> is going to be more negative than good.
> Otherwise he would have just posted the question "
> Hello everyone what makes
> RPG's good?"
> And that would have been it.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net
> [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net]On Behalf Of
> John Higginbotham
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 8:35 AM
> To: hoe@gamerz.net
> Subject: [HoE] Re: Help [OT]
> 
> 
>      Hey, Eric, you might want to reread the
> original
> post. It sounded to me like he was writing for a
> school assignment - not the media.
> 
>      On the flip side, gang, Eric has a point.
> Publicity for gaming is almost always negative. With
> the exception of the local Ren Faire (which buys
> advertising space), I've never seen a news report of
> article that was complementary of gaming. The local
> TV
> stations have carried reports about LARPs in the
> area
> that almost always make the people involved look
> like
> imbiciles. (The ones I've seen covered are Vampire
> LARPs and the SCA in general.)
>      Honestly, the coverage has been so bad that the
> Live Action coordinators that I've spoken with in
> the
> Phoenix area have stated outright that the news
> media
> is not welcome to cover their games. One game had
> their permission to play at a location because the
> reporter doing a story on them stood up the
> corporate
> representative from the mall.
> 
> =====
> John Higginbotham
> Phoenix, Arizona, USA
> cloudshaper2k@yahoo.com
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