Whilst browsing through “Men’s Fitness” (UK magazine, June 2002, page 71) in a section about adventure sport I spotted a box-out entitled “EXTREME OR PLAIN INSANE?” it has three sports listed, cave diving, sky surfing and…
Not technically correct, but it is a fitness magazine; maybe they should have used the phone number.
Any suicidal clowns called yet Roger?
Gary
are there any writers on the forum who would fancy sending that mag a decent article on mountain uni’ing?
could be a career break
u could become the great uni-scribe!
Re: Muni in Men’s Fitness magazine
On 15/5/02 5:39 pm, GILD posted:
>
> are there any writers on the forum who would fancy sending that mag a
> decent article on mountain uni’ing?
> could be a career break
> u could become the great uni-scribe!
>
If anyone does, don’t forget to use at least a few capital letters. (Sorry,
couldn’t resist.)
–
Trevor Coultart
RE: Muni in Men’s Fitness magazine
> are there any writers on the forum who would
> fancy sending that mag a
> decent article on mountain uni’ing?
I’ve scarcely run into a magazine yet that wants to do a decent article on
mountain unicycling. They usually want pictures, and as few sensationalized
words as possible.
But this doesn’t mean not to try. Because sometimes they do.
And I should know, as I’ve talked to the people doing most of the MUni
magazine coverage that I’ve heard of. At least, if they’ve used one of my
pictures you can know that the magazine received accurate information about
what it was a picture of. But we can’t make them use it.
Last year when the Weekly World News (the most outrageous of the US
supermarket tabloids) wanted to use some of my pictures for a MUni story, I
insisted on reviewing the article first. It was a piece that had been
written one or more years earlier by a freelance journalist, and was almost
entirely accurate, and realistic.
The problem with putting accurate and truthful reporting in the Weekly World
News is that people aren’t going to believe it anyway. Smart people, that
is. Somebody must be buying that rag, and I assume they believe enough of it
to keep paying for it!
The same issue included articles with these headlines:
Stay on top,
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
jfoss@unicycling.com
“Vehicularly-Injured Sperm-Count seat: better known by it’s abbreviated
name, Viscount.” David Stone, on saddle preference