Quote SaintsFan="SaintsFan"
Rubbish! As potential paying customers from whom the Telegraph makes its moniey, we have an absolute right to make demands! And of course we should be campaigning against them if we think that they are doing something wrong. Have you completed the questionnaire on the BBC Trust website yet? You know, the one about the decimation of local radio services? Do you think this is wrong or do you think that because the BBC is a big organisation who have made a business decision we have no right to make demands of it?'"
Fine then, as a potential paying customer im going to picket outside babestation. Im sick of the lack of RL themes on babestation and it is wrong. Over the next two years i will spend hours and hours 'researching' babestation to see how many mentions of the RL World Cup there is. And if there isnt, Babestation are obviously doing something wrong.
Quote SaintsFanAn organisation doesn't have to be using child labour/polluting the planet/putting health and safety at risk/name your issue to be doing something wrong. In the eyes of other sporting communities they may be the bogs dollocks but not in the eyes of the rugby league community because they have made a policy decision to release their RL correspondent and almost completely ignore our sport. In the eyes of many rugby league supporters, that is wrong. '"
If RL fans want a newspaper which promotes RL they can buy one, In fact there are two dedicated RL only papers. The only reason RL isnt promoted in the Telegraph is that people who buy the Telegraph buy it regardless of its RL coverage. If showing RL were to make the Telegraph money they would cover it. As it is, it doesnt, so they dont. No amount of badgering is going to change that, they only thing which will increase their RL coverage is RL coverage bringing in or keeping customers for the Telegraph.
Quote SaintsFanThe only way to campaign is by being visible and audible to the organisation that is the focus of your campaign. Picketing, writing letters, emails, articles, making phone calls, creating leaflets (and Stuart created a really good leaflet), films, motivating support, whatever - these are all perfectly valid means of campaigning and they are used by individuals and organisations the world over to protest over a practice or organisation or individual considered to be wrong by the campaigners. You might not agree with them - as obviously you don't - but that doesn't mean their protest isn't valid or that the issue they are protesting over isn't actually a problem. '"
No, thats badgering, its harrassing. The Telegraph arent going to spend money on covering RL just to stop people annoying them.
Quote SaintsFanSo everybody who pickets is a nutter then? I suppose you have just written off the miners, dockers, public sector workers, animal rights activists, political activists, etc, etc, etc. Stuart might not have been alone had more people known well enough in advance about what he was going to do. 'Badgering' is a very good way of protesting. That is exactly what should be done. '"
No, not everyone who pickets is a nutter. But people who equate something as trivial as RL coverage in a newspaper with things like Jobs, pensions, animal rights etc, etc, are clearly not playing with a full deck.
Quote SaintsFanAnd Stuart strikes me as a very intelligent, articulate and dignified man. Nothing 'nutterish' about him at all.'"
That may be so.He seems a bit misguided though
Quote SaintsFanI would suggest that your real problem is that you are a fence sitter, embarrassed by people who take a stand, and it is YOUR embarrassment rather than the validity of the cause which is determining your position in this matter.'"
You would suggest wrong. People should get involved and they should do what they can to help the game. Im full of respect for those who go out and get clubs set up, who pester, and badger, and beg, steal and borrow to get clubs, and team started and continuing. Im just pragmatic enough to understand there is a time and a place. I understand that whilst a letter writing campaign might help get an amateur side a grant for a new club house, it isnt going to get a council to buy a new SL stadium. And I understand that you might be able to badger a local paper in to advertising a gala day for a local amateur club you arent going to be able to pester a multi-million pound media group into reassessing its sports coverage.
Get some perspective FFS, If you honestly think Ben Clissit is going to try and secure the extra funding needed to increase RL coverage on the basis that someone is annoying him and he just wont shut the f@#k up then you really need to do yourself a favour and speak to someone who has been involved in this type of stuff before.
Our job isnt to annoy people so much the cover RL just to stop us bothering them, that is a stupid way of approaching it. Our job is to show that RL is a popular sport, attractive, and exciting. A sport that we want to read about, that we will spend money reading about.
As i said we catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
