Consequences
Mon, 25 Oct 2004, 01:58 pmGreg Ross15 posts in thread
Consequences
Mon, 25 Oct 2004, 01:58 pmIts time to stop! Now. The amateur theatre community is doing itself possibly irreparable harm. I have been trying to secure sponsorship of the annual Finley Awards and have just taken a phone call from the people IÂ’ve been working with, to the effect of why would they want to get involved with that sort of back biting and viciousness, as who on earth would want to take the risk of being mixed up with that sort of publicity.
Re: Contrive answers
Sat, 30 Oct 2004, 07:38 pmGrant Malcolm wrote:
>
> Yes, the write up really gave me the impression that a few
> people here were stirring up trouble against a poor
> defenceless charity and yet there was really nothing to
> complain about because lots of people were posting about what
> a good show K&I was. The blurb apparently entirely missed the
> point that the people complimenting the performance, were
> complimenting the work of the understudies and were speaking
> out against the sacking. But I suspect no-one is really
> surprised to find a newspaper has got this wrong.
Mr Adshead, when I questioned him, had this to say:
>I think my stories accurately reflect the mess over the understudies being
>sacked and Greg Ross calling for the public vitriol to stop.
>Thanks for the feedback
>Gary
I'd agree with him about accurately giving the impression of a mess.
> The west is has a monopoly it doesn't have to popular and you
> have to bear in mind the size of Greg's advertising account.
> My last few classifieds were hardly a blip on the radar at
> the west, and many theatre companies have all but given up on
> advertising in the west, why would our opinions matter?
Actually, I was surprised the article was printed at all - not because it's so unusual to talk about arts issues (which it is), but because I'm not sure that anyone reading the articles out of context without being involved in the show or having read this website would understand what the hell was going on! It wasn't comprehensive enough to explain or justify its existence...but maybe the advertising account angle makes more sense.
> > Still, it comes across as nicely sensational, and vaguely
> > amusing...we all realise the real, accurate news happens a
> > few pages in.
> > (...um, somewhere..?)
>
> That'll be the crossword trivia pages where I understand some
> real research takes place prior to publication.
> > ;-)
True! But trivia and cryptics can be found elsewhere. It's not worth purchasing a whole paper just for that...and I don't. It just happens to be delivered to the place I'm staying in while my house is being built, hence my momentary interest.
Cheers
Craig
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>
> Yes, the write up really gave me the impression that a few
> people here were stirring up trouble against a poor
> defenceless charity and yet there was really nothing to
> complain about because lots of people were posting about what
> a good show K&I was. The blurb apparently entirely missed the
> point that the people complimenting the performance, were
> complimenting the work of the understudies and were speaking
> out against the sacking. But I suspect no-one is really
> surprised to find a newspaper has got this wrong.
Mr Adshead, when I questioned him, had this to say:
>I think my stories accurately reflect the mess over the understudies being
>sacked and Greg Ross calling for the public vitriol to stop.
>Thanks for the feedback
>Gary
I'd agree with him about accurately giving the impression of a mess.
> The west is has a monopoly it doesn't have to popular and you
> have to bear in mind the size of Greg's advertising account.
> My last few classifieds were hardly a blip on the radar at
> the west, and many theatre companies have all but given up on
> advertising in the west, why would our opinions matter?
Actually, I was surprised the article was printed at all - not because it's so unusual to talk about arts issues (which it is), but because I'm not sure that anyone reading the articles out of context without being involved in the show or having read this website would understand what the hell was going on! It wasn't comprehensive enough to explain or justify its existence...but maybe the advertising account angle makes more sense.
> > Still, it comes across as nicely sensational, and vaguely
> > amusing...we all realise the real, accurate news happens a
> > few pages in.
> > (...um, somewhere..?)
>
> That'll be the crossword trivia pages where I understand some
> real research takes place prior to publication.
> > ;-)
True! But trivia and cryptics can be found elsewhere. It's not worth purchasing a whole paper just for that...and I don't. It just happens to be delivered to the place I'm staying in while my house is being built, hence my momentary interest.
Cheers
Craig
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