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Journalist enquiry about skiing trips being affected by lack of snow

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Weathercam wrote:
Actually the Telegraph has done a good informative piece

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/snow-french-alps-skiing-holidays/

From the French Alps to the US, the 10 best and worst places to ski right now

And these are the sub-headings

Which resorts are worst affected?
Which resorts still have good snow cover?
What’s the short-term forecast?
What’s the long-term forecast?
Can I get a refund if I cancel my booking?
What else is there to do in badly hit resorts?

So some good research and the best article I've read, but hey I'm biased Laughing



One of my favourite things about Les Arc is looking south, on a good day you can see Corsica.
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Tough crowd...

@admin Perhaps your greatest ever marketing opportunity is staring you in the face.

Invite poor Joe on the next Bash and show him we're not all cunts.
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How refreshing to have someone being clear about their motive in the title, instead of buffoons like @Stanton pretending to be a ski enthusiast whilst he sits bored in his taxi in Zurich trolling
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@sean1967, Laughing ...and it has a fantastic beach.
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Weathercam wrote:
Actually the Telegraph has done a good informative piece

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/snow-french-alps-skiing-holidays/

From the French Alps to the US, the 10 best and worst places to ski right now

And these are the sub-headings

Which resorts are worst affected?
Which resorts still have good snow cover?
What’s the short-term forecast?
What’s the long-term forecast?
Can I get a refund if I cancel my booking?
What else is there to do in badly hit resorts?

So some good research and the best article I've read, but hey I'm biased Laughing



Grandvalira is advertising 10cm on lower slopes and 35cm on upper but hasn’t made this list. There’s still plenty of less than perfect skiing though!
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He could easily have asked for feedback without letting on that he was only going to use the horror stories.
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pam w wrote:
He could easily have asked for feedback without letting on that he was only going to use the horror stories.


Inews - exactly the type of news media the posters here read! Learn not to poo-poo on your own doorstep
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Sorry, @Gored, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
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He's gone....
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The Daily Mail

'Trendy North London woke snowflakes getting away from their leftie friends ruining our lives with their Corbynist strikes are distraught at finding their expensive holidays spoilt by the complete absence of any snow this year. Fiona, an ICU nurse who abandoned her patients and went skiing - sorry, on strike - said that it was "all the fault of the EU's tree-hugging environmental rules."'

The Guardian

'Fat cat bankers and financier chums of ex-Goldman Rishi! Sunak have had their winter breaks severely curtailed this year due to global warming and its effect on almost eliminating Alpine snowfall. Some experts are warning of forest fires. Skier and LBGTXQ+ campaigner Isis Foraminifera said that thanks to a decade of under-investment by the government, weather forecasting was so under-resourced that no one had received advance warning.'

and so on ...... It'll be interesting to see what direction the article takes.


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Sorry, @Gored, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Ditto. I need my pills.
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@LaForet, much better than my narratives. Chapeau
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@LaForet, excellent Very Happy
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Joe Duggan wrote:
Hi guys,

I'm a reporter for the i newspaper. I hope you are well. I'm trying to speak to people whose skiing holidays have been affected by the lack of snow. If anyone did wish to talk to me you can drop me an email on joe.duggan@inews.co.uk.

Thanks very much.

All the best.

Joe


Are you going to write an article when it buckets down with snow in a couple of days as well?
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Joe Duggan wrote:
Hi guys,

I'm a reporter for the i newspaper. I hope you are well. I'm trying to speak to people whose skiing holidays have been affected by the lack of snow. If anyone did wish to talk to me you can drop me an email on joe.duggan@inews.co.uk.

Thanks very much.

All the best.

Joe


I'm based in NZ, where it's also tragic at the moment. No snow below about 3,000m and only then on shady aspects. All the ski areas have closed down, and all staff let go. Machinery is locked away in sheds, and not much change on the near term horizon.

It's currently 31 degrees under a cloudless sky. No chance of skiing at all. A lot of local skiers are cutting their losses and heading to Japan or North America to get a fix.
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Matt's take on the lack of snow in ski resorts..... Madeye-Smiley

https://twitter.com/MattCartoonist/status/1610692750642483207?t=haR9azS_1r_Qsd37pkBCnQ&s=19
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Blocked inews ages ago from my news feed, so much nonsense from them.
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Bad news for skiers,( positive spin for year round hikers)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-64190150

Good news for British skiing?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64176020
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@LaForet, you forgot about their £1.2m house in leafy (insert town or county name)
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@ster, classic bbc scare story - pictures of a swiss resort struggling for snow. Its at 1250m.......
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@GreenDay, ha, indeed it is.

I thought you would actually be picking me up on the British skiing comment to correct me by saying its Scottish! wink
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@GreenDay, ha, indeed it is.

I thought you would actually be picking me up on the British skiing comment to correct me by saying its Scottish! wink


That doesnt bother me, the more the merrier Very Happy

Just dont go to Cairngorm, its not open yet !
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Where I was 3 of the 4 areas were closed, the 4th was reduced & over subscribed by far too many skiers BUT it didn’t spoil my holiday.
There is more to do than just skiing in the mountains
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For the snowheads still in The Nile

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So the slimy OP has bunked off without a further word - now there's a surprise! rolling eyes Sums up the British media; just a bunch of scumbags preying on the great unwashed.
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@jellylegs, why the name calling and personal attack on the OP?

He stated his request politely and made his intentions clear.
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@jellylegs, ....er....not quite right...yes, there was the phone tapping scandal and undue pursuit of individuals....BUT....first, I am not a journalist, I am a researcher; second, I work with a lot of national journalists and they are people of high integrity and reputation; thirdly, they hold government and business and individuals to account - Private Eye under Hislop does a brilliant job at rooting out corruption and hypocrisy...the Press are not called the 'Fourth Estate' for nothing - without a free press, most of the liberties we hold dear would be under threat....
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@snowdave, precisely...and I responded to him with respect and the information which he requested....
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davidof wrote:
For the snowheads still in The Nile



Much skiing expected on the Nile delta? Skiing and visiting wonders of the ancient world, what a holiday combination.
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valais2 wrote:
@jellylegs, ....er....not quite right...yes, there was the phone tapping scandal and undue pursuit of individuals....BUT....first, I am not a journalist, I am a researcher; second, I work with a lot of national journalists and they are people of high integrity and reputation; thirdly, they hold government and business and individuals to account - Private Eye under Hislop does a brilliant job at rooting out corruption and hypocrisy...the Press are not called the 'Fourth Estate' for nothing - without a free press, most of the liberties we hold dear would be under threat....


The press spend most of their time these days trying to scare people to death. It's all attention grabbing clickbait.
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Quote:

The press spend most of their time these days trying to scare people to death. It's all attention grabbing clickbait

No it's not. You're clearly reading the wrong newspapers, Mcaff. Most of us aren't nearly scared enough about quite a lot of things, including climate change.

His approach was a little unsubtle, @jellylegs, but as @snowdave said your comments are totally uncalled for.
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The press spend most of their time these days trying to scare people to death. It's all attention grabbing clickbait

No it's not. You're clearly reading the wrong newspapers, Mcaff. Most of us aren't nearly scared enough about quite a lot of things, including climate change.

His approach was a little unsubtle, @jellylegs, but as @snowdave said your comments are totally uncalled for.


I wasn't even thinking of the papers! You only have to switch on the BBC or open the news app. The neuroticism around things such as 'climate change' are faintly ridiculous. It was only a few months ago we were going to get nuked by the Russians, have blackouts sending us back to the 70's, everyone down the food bank due to financial Armageddon, and that's all after the scarefest that was COVID... (The govt behavioural bods specifically used fear, it's documented)
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I wasn't even thinking of the papers!

Somehow I'd guessed you don't read newspapers.
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I wasn't even thinking of the papers!

Somehow I'd guessed you don't read newspapers.


Are there any that actually report anything semi-balanced?
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Mcaff wrote:
everyone down the food bank due to financial Armageddon

Oh right, so all the demand for food banks has gone away and isn't still rising? I obviously don't read the right news sources. 60,000 packages handed out in 2016 - 2,500,000 last year. Or do you regard all these food bank users as 'neuoritc'?
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@LaForet I don't think you understand the point I am making.
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Does anybody? Cool
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Have an enjoyable evening either way!
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Back in the day, I worked with a "number" of top Fleet Street Editors*, I was on the commercial side, but Noon every day I went through the next days paper with "them", and then a not too often occurrence was getting rung up at 06:00 or there abouts as a big story hit in "our time" being Evening Standard, such as John Lenon and then having to go through the dummy that I had to take home every night (before digital) to make a call on the revised layout with the news editor.
In my time I saw a lot of goings on and witnessed shite that are now the stuff of Fleet Street folk stories.**

People trying to make a name for themselves as a journo would resort to tactics such as what the OP has done, but on the whole they might get published, but the subs would see through it, and that would be their short career in Fleet Street.

Now a days there seems to be less gravitas in the online world, than in the print, in that the subs are not so rigourous.

It's very much a case of what you pay for, in that the the likes of the Times and Telegraph, have better editorial standards, though one might not agree with their politics, Vs the free Fleet Street, as it were.

* 30 years, of which last 10 @ senior level

**The antics we got up to derail Capn Bob and his London rag Laughing
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