Zoom did it!!

So, what's all this about exclusivity? What value was added by ANN?


Exclusivity is Zoomspeak for "They didn't throw his ass out".

YET!!


Chuck S RAH-14/1 ret


Yep, zooms exclusive was so great that I have yet to see a single account,
story byline, photo, or anything attributed to Zoom in any of the news media
coverage. Must have missed it in all the coverage from other media sources.

Has anybody, besides pauwn, seen anything outside of ANN that was attributed to
zoom?


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From: "Dionysos"
Date: 9/29/2004 17:48 Central Daylight Time
Message-id: fZG6d.132249$MQ5.120555@attbi_s52

Barrel rolls all the way up!!! You KNOW Zoom was at the controls!!!!

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Dionysos

The question I have is was zoom even there?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Since when has he had to -be- there in order to claim he was??

Harry K

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:56:49 GMT, Juan Jimenez wrote:

wmbjk wrote in
:

Even better, ANN was one of the first to list on its site (and I am
not making this up), multiple CNN quotes about the flight. :-)

You might want to check out who does the pool reporting for X-Prize. It
ain't CNN.

I saw most of the CNN coverage (thank you Replay TV), which was
largely Miles O'Brien and his color man :-) Dick Rutan. Later I was
laughing my ass off when I read ANN's article quoting the exact same
lines I'd already heard from O'Brien. It should have been titled "our
coverage of CNN's coverage". Although I guess it does prove once and
for all that somebody at ANN can afford basic cable.

Wayne

ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:

In article , Rob Cherney says...

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:56:49 GMT, Juan Jimenez wrote:

You might want to check out who does the pool reporting for X-Prize. It
ain't CNN.

http://www.xprize.org/press_room/pre...11&mode=global

No mention of ANN.

A lot of what I've seen in the press is excerpted from the video
coverage of the event. DEEPBLU Studios is credited with the video
content. I watched it real-time on a satellite feed. At a point just
after landing, I saw a person with a TV camera escorted away. (Know
anything about that?)

Good up-to-the minute coverage was provided by these sites:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com and
http://www.space.com

CNN's website has an article written by Michael Coren of CNN. No
mention of ANN. The photos were credited to the Dexter and Southfield
Schools, CNN, and Scaled Composites.

The content of the stories on the ABCNEWS and FOXNEWS websites is
credited to Associated Press. Again, no ANN.

The content on MSNBC's website is provided by their own Science
Editor, Alan Boyle.

So, what's all this about exclusivity? What value was added by ANN?

In zoomspeak it means I was there taking pictures .He probably paid his own way
and is working for free .It's the old possibility and probability effect in
action. It's possible he's the pool reporter but he's probably just there making
a pest of himself. Maybe pool reporter means that he does all his writing in
the motel swimming pool. I'd love to talk to some real reporters that were there
and ask if they saw zoomy in action.LOL!!

Chuck S RAH-14 ret


Now Chuck....

Have you considered that he might actually be telling the literal truth?

For instance:
If he hired himself and assigned himself as his very own pool reporter?

But I do like your "pool" theory better.


Richard

Rob Cherney wrote in
:

http://www.xprize.org/press_room/pre...?articleID=111
&mode=global

No mention of ANN.

No mention of CNN either, chuckle

So, what's all this about exclusivity? What value was added by ANN?

When you figure out what pool media is, you'll get it.

osite (RobertR237) wrote in
:

Yep, zooms exclusive was so great that I have yet to see a single
account, story byline, photo, or anything attributed to Zoom in any of
the news media coverage. Must have missed it in all the coverage from
other media sources.

Actually, you missed something else entirely, but that's about par for you.
Lights on, nobody's home. I think we'll call you Burntboulb.

Why don't you just write Diamandis and ask him about the ANN press release,
and whether or not it's true?

Oh, but of course, I forgot, you're too chicken**** for that kind of thing.
You only do the whining show, right?

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:25:08 GMT, Juan Jimenez wrote:

Rob Cherney wrote in

No mention of ANN.

No mention of CNN either, chuckle

Why should there be? CNN is not making claims that they have any
exclusive agreement with the X-Prize Foundation.

The observation is that I have found no media outlet has displayed any
indication of reliance on ANN. At the same time, there is nothing on
the X-Prize Foundation website that directs media outlets to ANN.

So, what's all this about exclusivity? What value was added by ANN?

When you figure out what pool media is, you'll get it.

OK. Please educate me. And while you're at it, please provide
answers to the above questions.

And note that I've been civil in this exchange. I am requesting the
same courtesy.


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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:53:09 -0400, Rob Cherney wrote:

So, what's all this about exclusivity? What value was added by ANN?

When you figure out what pool media is, you'll get it.

OK. Please educate me.

Well, I'll give you my shot at it. Press pools are designed to provide
press coverage of news events while avoiding having to provide direct
access for hundreds of reporters. Pool reporters' products are made
available without restriction to all media.

You can find a fairly decent description at:

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/P/...olcoverage.htm

One unvarying aspect of the traditional press pools is a *mix* of
reporters. That's why you sometimes see pool reports bylined like, "Joe
Smith of the Big Springs Herald"... Joe won the pool lottery, and that's
why Geraldo isn't writing the piece.

When the organization that is the *subject* of the news selects a
particular entity to provide news to the media, that isn't pool coverage.
That's being a press agent. The members of all legitimate press pools are
selected either by lottery or by rotation.

Ron Wanttaja

Rob Cherney wrote in
:

Why should there be? CNN is not making claims that they have any
exclusive agreement with the X-Prize Foundation.

That's because they don't.

OK. Please educate me. And while you're at it, please provide
answers to the above questions.

Take a look at the press release announcing this on ANN. It speaks for
itself, Robert.

In article , Ron Wanttaja says...

When the organization that is the *subject* of the news selects a
particular entity to provide news to the media, that isn't pool coverage.
That's being a press agent. The members of all legitimate press pools are
selected either by lottery or by rotation.


Thursdays paper had a photo with Laura Rauch/Associated press for the by line.
Where's the exclusivity? So as usual zooms full of prunes and jauns been
snookered LOL!!

Chuck(I'm for real) S RAH-14/1 ret