Editor of Sailing Today.

K

kds

Well-Known Member
Joined
21 Nov 2002
Messages
1,769
Location
Somerset
www.canongrange.co.uk
My daughter usually gets it right - but this year she bought me a subscription to "sailing today".
I can't say I enjoyed the editorial last month - the editor certainly has some strange hang-up re the Olympics.
Who is this guy ? The opinions he expresses in his magazine are about as mature as he looks in his photo - 12 years old ?

His comment on a letter in this months "your letters" concluded ;

" head down to Weymouth to watch Olympic sailors defrauding the tax payer."

Of course he is entitled to express his opinions - but I don't want to read them in a British yachting magazine.
Ken
 
The top story on their website is about the Olympics pushing up berthing costs... Your point proven!

I may be bias, and as much as we 'don't want to be put out' by the Olympics, we may as well enjoy them!
 
kds said:
My daughter usually gets it right - but this year she bought me a subscription to "sailing today".
I can't say I enjoyed the editorial last month - the editor certainly has some strange hang-up re the Olympics.
Who is this guy ? The opinions he expresses in his magazine are about as mature as he looks in his photo - 12 years old ?

His comment on a letter in this months "your letters" concluded ;

" head down to Weymouth to watch Olympic sailors defrauding the tax payer."

Of course he is entitled to express his opinions - but I don't want to read them in a British yachting magazine.
Ken
Click to expand...
Are you sure you interpreted that right?
I haven't seen it, and I have no wish to argue, but maybe the message you received was not the message he intended to transmit -- or maybe it was written by someone else.
It certainly seems an unusual comment to be made by someone who was the Editor of the RYA website of the British Olympic Sailing website for quite a few years.
 
kds said:
My daughter usually gets it right - but this year she bought me a subscription to "sailing today".
I can't say I enjoyed the editorial last month - the editor certainly has some strange hang-up re the Olympics.
Who is this guy ? The opinions he expresses in his magazine are about as mature as he looks in his photo - 12 years old ?

His comment on a letter in this months "your letters" concluded ;

" head down to Weymouth to watch Olympic sailors defrauding the tax payer."

Of course he is entitled to express his opinions - but I don't want to read them in a British yachting magazine.
Ken
Click to expand...
I thought the editorial was very poorly written as well. Strange!
 
timbartlett said:
Are you sure you interpreted that right?
I haven't seen it, and I have no wish to argue, but maybe the message you received was not the message he intended to transmit -- or maybe it was written by someone else.
Click to expand...

So why are you posting on it? I fail to see how you can have a valid opinion without reading what the OP is talking about. What the writer of the piece has done in the past is surely immaterial- its what he has written now which is under discussion. In my opinion, of course...........
 
rotrax said:
...What the writer of the piece has done in the past is surely immaterial- its what he has written now which is under discussion. In my opinion, of course...........
Click to expand...
If you look carefully at what I wrote, you would see that I am not expressing an opinion on it, merely surprise at what we have been told.

When someone who is well known for one thing suddenly appears to be saying something that is completely contrary to what they have been saying for the previous decade, I don't regard an expression of surprise as being particularly out of order, do you?

rotrax said:
So why are you posting on it? I fail to see how you can have a valid opinion without reading what the OP is talking about. ...
Click to expand...
so anyone who wants to post a comment in the lounge about some government report or some proposed new initiative is required to actually read the report themselves, or study the official plans before they are allowed to comment? No more comments based on what someone has half-remembered from the papers or the Telly?

Bring it on: when will that happen ... and who will enforce it.
 
Apparently you can travel all the way to Weymouth and Portland and watch the sailing on "a big television screen on the beach" I was informed this morning on the charabanc wireless.

I feel a Victor Meldrew moment coming on.
 
kds said:
" head down to Weymouth to watch Olympic sailors defrauding the tax payer."
Click to expand...

Sounds like a bored art editor, who put a "joke" caption in the layout, it wasn't changed by the sub, and got left in.

I read once in the BJP (British Journal of Photography) which read in the copy something along the lines of: "Can someone in the office pad this out a bit to fill up this column?"

Or there was an Model Aeroplane magazine I saw with a DPS opener of a spitfire across it was written "HEADLINE!":D
 
kds said:
My daughter usually gets it right - but this year she bought me a subscription to "sailing today".
I can't say I enjoyed the editorial last month - the editor certainly has some strange hang-up re the Olympics.
Who is this guy ? The opinions he expresses in his magazine are about as mature as he looks in his photo - 12 years old ?

His comment on a letter in this months "your letters" concluded ;

" head down to Weymouth to watch Olympic sailors defrauding the tax payer."

Of course he is entitled to express his opinions - but I don't want to read them in a British yachting magazine.
Ken
Click to expand...

Not for the first time, I have been irritated to the point of being offended by some of the 'witticisms' in ST recently. I've found the answer though - the subscription my wife bought me will be allowed to quietly expire.
 
It just a view I know, and it looks as though some may dissagree, but I have thought over the last few months that ST has improved and PBO is slowly losing its way. I still buy both (and a third) and shall continue, I am sure, 'vive la difference'.
 
I can't remember the editorial in question, will need to read it again, but actually I do like ST's sense of humour. The book reviews are brilliant.
All of the other magazines seem afraid to have any sort of 'personality' or to actually tell you that something they are reviewing is no good.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top