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This one (not long) is worth reading in full, because the devil is in the small amount of detail reported:
Media Decoder: "Link to Fatality Article Disappears at Ski Magazine"
There's an apparent contradiction between ...
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| In a note to the staff, a digital editor [of Ski Magazine] said that the post was pulled after executives at Vail Resorts, which owns several resorts, threatened to pull advertising. She advised the staff that they might want to avoid stories about fatal skiing accidents in the future. |
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| Mike Federle, group publisher of the Bonnier Mountain Group, said that the post was not pulled because of advertising pressure. |
Decoding required!
The latter comes across to me (if he's being accurately quoted) as rather disingenuous. He seems to be trying to imply that the terrible death of a child skier from an unusual cause, isn't noteworthy/newsworthy. The skiing community (his readership) may not agree and might want to be reasonably well informed about incidents like this.
Ski Magazine seems to have changed hands.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ski Magazine seems to have changed hands
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A number of times. Around 4 times since it was Times Mirror.
Anyhow, clearly their advertiser applied pressure and got their way. In days gone by, the article would appear in print and couldn't be undone. The advertiser might have been miffed enough to cancel future ads but would have also recognised that "today's news, tomorrow's chip paper" holds true. Today, with electronic media, the advertiser can get shirty much more effectively.
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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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Only in America eh? The Greenback still rules 
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| The Abominable snowHead wrote: |
| He seems to be trying to imply that the terrible death of a child skier from an unusual cause, isn't noteworthy/newsworthy. |
Well in a copy of the story I could find - http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20091120/NEWS/911209965/1077&ParentProfile=1058 it says
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| Haley Rose Gans, a homeschool student, was reportedly “skiing very fast and into a tree,” according to a press release from Summit County Coroner Joanne Richardson |
Girl Skis Fast
Girl hits Tree
Girl Dies
V. Sad but not exactly a death from an unusual cause for someone on a ski slope.
As to the censorship I guess Vail haven't heard of The Streisand Effect
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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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Here's a wonderful example of advertiser relations from a UK ski magazine http://www.goodskiguide.com/gsg/index.php/the-news/370-safety
And the offending article (which, allegedly your honour, has caused some to cancel ads) seems to have been pulled from the magazine's website but did appear in a printed version so I'm told.
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If every American "person skis into tree and dies" story was published there wouldn't be much room for all the gear reviews that enabled them to ski so fast and out of control in the first place. Seriously, if you ski in America, take note of the sheer number of little "shrines" on the trees. And, before anyone mentions it, most will have been wearing helmets. Trees always win.
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I've gained a new respect for Nordica withtheir rep's honest assessment of the merits of the (not very) Good Ski Guide
"GSG is pish" says Nordica
Don't agree on the baseline story - better kit must make it easier to attain higher speeds at lower ability levels.
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This is absolute boll@@ks. Magazines are not newspapers. If you want news: Buy a newspaper. If you want to hear about good stuff you like, buy a snow sports magazine. The two should not be confused. Magazines, by there very nature are 3 weks out of date. Newspapers are transient and never need to back-up their headlines.
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Very funny, Swiller. That magazine's been having a bad hair day since about 1984. When I was involved on another ski magazine I used to read it and try and get myself inside the head of the publisher.
I was subsequently admitted to a local mental hospital.
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