For Months Everyone One Almost, was BASHING the IPT

[JoeyA]

Everyone needs to be proactive in their areas. Google your biggest paper, or heck all of them, find out the sports editors emails and phone numbers and let them know they are missing coverage of the biggest tournament ever. Then do a press release for the coming tournaments a week or so in advance.

If everyone does their part locally, and if they get enough complaints/suggestions , they will start printing them. Why leave the decision up to an editor? With the internet, the printed word is fighting to stay alive and they take comments seriously! If they can increase readership or subscriptions, then they will print results of checkers!

Yeah, it would be nice if the IPT could plaster every news outlet with press releases, but if every fan could weigh in with the papers, we would have a groundswell of support that could make our media wishes come true.

I wrote the Assistant editor of the Times Picayune a nice email early this morning. Wonder if it will fall on blind eyes.
JoeyA

 

[pete lafond]

I still think that the lack of media coverage is a mistake. A very few of us even know this is going on. It needed at least some TV coverage to get to the masses

I do think more coverage would help, but with payouts like this it will catch on quick. It can only go so long before most find out winnings and it is winnings that help turn on spectators.