MCN Research

I know I am relatively new to this group (6 months-ish) but, is it my
imagination or does the MCN gather some of it's stories/articles from this
group?

For example this week MCN are running the artical regarding the "exploding
sperm whale" which is not exactly motorcycle related yet I know was
discussed on UKRM recently.

Just a thought, D

 

David Thomas wrote:
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It is not inconceivable that they just picked it up through the normal news
channels? I saw it on the BBC site well before someone had the kindness to
post it on UKRM for those who can't use the web themselves.

 

http://www.ukrm.net/CLUES/exploits/mcnsting.html

hth
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Slider says...

Although some years ago some of the UKRM peeps did manage to stitch up
MCN with some alleged 'news' that they 'disclosed'.

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Yerbut they didn't run any of the articles on obesity which were also in the
news this week, yet fat people ride bikes (me), sperm whales don't... I rest
my case.

D

 

David Thomas wrote

This was certainly true in the past. Famous in the anals of ukrm
history is the thread which led to their outing. I think it would be
gilding the lily a bit though if ever they were caught doing it twice.
Especially in the current climate of concern over editorial
responsibility,

 

I had to click on that again, for another laugh.

 

David Thomas said...

It's a weell known fact that all journalists are work-shy cunts who will
steal, blame their mother and then write a story about it, but only if
there's money in it for them.

 

It has been called to light in the past indeed

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How do you know this?

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ok ok, well I haven't seen any sperm whales riding on southend
seafront.......yet, but it is early in the year.

D

 

I had to click on that again, for another laugh.[/QUOTE]

Same here.

It's a shame nobody got scans of the paper that week.

 

http://ukrm.net/CLUES/exploits/mcnsting.html

HTH.

 

Good *god* I see you're right

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Like I said almost exactly two back (26 Feb 02 One piece vs. two piece
leathers on the road...) a reporter from a provincial newspaper
decided to take his motorcycle test just so he could get a job with
MCN. Less than six months after sitting astride a motorcycle for the
first time he was an MCN road tester writing with authority on how the
latest sportsbike handled on the limit and how it compared with its
peers.

Adam Duckworth (MCN editor at the time) emailed me accusing me of
inventing my story (!!!), but he went very quiet (well, he didn't
reply) when I emailed him back providing him with the name of the MCN
staffer concerned.

Merc

 

Could we ask MCN for a back-issue?