 Poster: A snowHead
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I ask you, what a load of rubbish!
Perusing the magazine in W H Smith this morning, virtually every 'article' was embellished with some advertsing feature masquerading as 'ski journalism'. So, we had an 'informative' First Tracks section which contained such useful nuggets about luxury holidays (several mentions of the operators here) whilst a piece on goggles (is that the thirtieth time this sort of thing has appeared?)was, of course, in the Peter Hardy league of writing. Amazingly, there was a stunning piece of prose on the SMART car and a journey to Courchevel whilst a run of some 20 pages on 'kit' was merely an advertising listing for products. Again, the issue ended with another unimaginative inventory of resorts, all of which could be got from the web.
What sort of stuff is this nonsense? Who buys it (presumably some people do)? And why can't the magazine get its act together and actually commission some 'proper' ski journalism rather than be a Snow and Rock catalogue with a wee bit of commentary?
Snowheads could do better than this lot, asleep, hammered whilst being interrogated by the CIA.............
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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What sort of stuff is this nonsense? Who buys it (presumably some people do)? And why can't the magazine get its act together and actually commission some 'proper' ski journalism rather than be a Snow and Rock catalogue with a wee bit of commentary?
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because their print run is about 20k copies which means there is no money for anything interesting. They would need a circulation of 100k to produce an interesting magazine.
well that's my thoughts, maybe the produce what will sell?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I wonder why anyone ever pays to read any of the other drivel in the Daily Mail either. I have occasionally, when bored to death on a train, picked up a copy left behind on a seat. And every time, I wonder.
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Personally I would'nt offend my bum by wiping the poo off it with that mag...Ski & Board is little better...DARK SUMMER forever!!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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kevin mcclean, but you didn't pay for it, did you? - so how are they supposed to source for the better stuff you want, without advertorials?
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| Personally I would'nt offend my bum by wiping the poo off it with that mag...Ski & Board is little better...DARK SUMMER forever!! |
Props to Dark Summer, good interesting articles.
And its free!
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Its not - its part of your membership fee!
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Yip, it is complete turd.
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Dark Summer's free if you can pick it up in a shop etc, if you want it posted to your house it's about £5 for a season's subscription...just to clarify 
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Let's be honest, if an asteroid wiped out the entire Daily Mail office and staff, the world would be a better place.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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