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| Originally Posted by Diane M. Byrne Carl, I wish you had contacted me before repeating the story you relate. I do not refer to the PMY forum members as Yacht Stalkers, not have I ever said it's a "pain to baby-sit them." The forum members--enthusiasts, industry members, yacht owners, yacht captains, even people who've joined as a result of searching for info on a yacht they happened to see--know that I enjoy the give and take of information and learn as much from them as I hope they learn from participating. And Robert Frank from the WSJ knows how I feel about yacht spotting as well as his article.
As to your own questions, my 14 years as a respected PMY writer and editor make me a member of the marine world. I invite you and your members to ask yard reps, brokers, etc. how they view me. If after doing so, you still believe that my work and journalistic credentials are not worthy, perhaps we're best agreeing to disagree. But realize that by extension, you're questioning most of the marine media--indeed, the media in general. Many marine journalists have not built/designed/engineered a yacht, just as many art critics have never painted masterpieces, finance journalists have not started multimillion-dollar companies, aerospace reporters have not built planes, etc.
If you or anyone else wishes to contact me directly, I would be glad to explain what I did and did not say--to people in this business, to forum members, to the WSJ reporter, etc. |
Well, water under the bridge and all that... Diane M. Byrne. I suppose we're all a fairly proud bunch here at YachtForums... and perhaps a lot of us do feel a bit miffed... at the very idea of the 'extension' aspect of your reply.
This YF grouping has a decided
passion for what is posted here. Who would not feel denigrated by being considered as mere voyeurs by the "questioning marine media"? Heck, some of us
are part of the marine media.
And, as a little aside, this site has beat the crap out of the print magazines as far as timeliness and pertinent information is concerned. While no one here, hopefully, is going to make a 'mountain out of a molehill', maybe the "media", as you say, has progressed beyond what you have experienced in the new medium known as the internet forums.
This is the new deal, honey.