FP in Toledo Blade
The Toledo Blah (blade) has an article about the fast pass system in the second news senction, titled "System tested to reduce Millennium Force wait". The article is a major crock of BS. It said that the FP system was working, it also says that people said they liked the ticket to ride program rather than waiting in line. Obviously, acording to this site and all off the CP fans we have here, who would die for the park... are not impressed with the system and want it gone. The article totaly says that the system is good and that people like the FP system. This is not true, The Blah trys to be unbias when it writes its articles, but it is one of the most biased papers in the country. I would'nt say this is an acurate article.
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"The shade, is a tool, A device, a saviour"
My own summer (shove it)-Deftones
MF Rides-11
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"The shade, is a tool, A device, a saviour"
My own summer (shove it)-Deftones
MF Rides-11
That's what a good PR department does.
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Cedar Point Virtual Midway
http://www.schmidty.com/cpvirtual
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Cedar Point Virtual Midway
http://www.schmidty.com/cpvirtual
i just sent a letter to the editor of the Blade telling them how i feel about its article and the ticket system. maybe if we ALL do so, it would help. what a load or propagandist crap that was!!! people like it....HAH!!! maybe people in a coma!!
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ride early, ride often!!!
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ride early, ride often!!!
You have to remember the newspaper's source. You don't think they have their reporters visiting the park on Saturday to see how the system works, do you? Of course not.
The Park People I talked to on Saturday indicated that they had gotten many compliments on the system on Friday. Perhaps they did. Perhaps the system worked great on Friday. All I know is that on Saturday it was more of a fiasco. The park, of course, is going to blame the fiasco on the crowd, on the weather, and on mechanical trouble with the ride...not on the fact that it is simply too cumbersome and ignores most people's preferences for handling a day in the park. Particularly since it apparently worked for them on Sunday. The real key is how it works...or doesn't...on the four-day holiday weekend. If it crashes under those crowds, and the weather and the ride do not give them any excuses to work with, perhaps they will understand what some of us have been saying all along...
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
The Park People I talked to on Saturday indicated that they had gotten many compliments on the system on Friday. Perhaps they did. Perhaps the system worked great on Friday. All I know is that on Saturday it was more of a fiasco. The park, of course, is going to blame the fiasco on the crowd, on the weather, and on mechanical trouble with the ride...not on the fact that it is simply too cumbersome and ignores most people's preferences for handling a day in the park. Particularly since it apparently worked for them on Sunday. The real key is how it works...or doesn't...on the four-day holiday weekend. If it crashes under those crowds, and the weather and the ride do not give them any excuses to work with, perhaps they will understand what some of us have been saying all along...
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Do you really think that they would write something negitive about the system and ruin their relationship with the park?
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-Chris
Against Ticket To Ride since day one!
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-Chris
Against Ticket To Ride since day one!
do you really think that we here would write something negative on the syatem and ruin OUR LEADER'S relationship with the park?? Jeff has many perks(MF winter pictures) and a relationship with the park on the line here, yet he is railing as hard as we are!! i just think that before you write something like that, do all your research and talk to many sources, like we do here. i am a source. Jeff is a source, Dan is a source, etc...so what i am saying is coming from MANY sources on all sides. a newspaper should know better than that.
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ride early, ride often!!!
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ride early, ride often!!!
I don't think the positive piece has anything to do with keeping on CP's good side. There have been plenty of negative articles in the past.
Go back to where Dave said, "You don't think they have their reporters visiting the park on Saturday to see how the system works, do you?"
The Toledo Blade does not maintain a staff of coaster enthusiasts for their amusement park articles. They had one source for their article: Cedar Point Public Relations. And I'm sure that's good enough for them. Frankly, I doubt the Toledo Blade is going to hire Carl Monday* to go to work. Outside the amusement park world, it simply isn't that big of a deal.
* For those outside of Cleveland, Carl Monday is an investigative reporter for WJW Fox-8.
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Cedar Point Virtual Midway
http://www.schmidty.com/cpvirtual
*** This post was edited by Gemini on 6/27/2000. ***
Go back to where Dave said, "You don't think they have their reporters visiting the park on Saturday to see how the system works, do you?"
The Toledo Blade does not maintain a staff of coaster enthusiasts for their amusement park articles. They had one source for their article: Cedar Point Public Relations. And I'm sure that's good enough for them. Frankly, I doubt the Toledo Blade is going to hire Carl Monday* to go to work. Outside the amusement park world, it simply isn't that big of a deal.
* For those outside of Cleveland, Carl Monday is an investigative reporter for WJW Fox-8.
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Cedar Point Virtual Midway
http://www.schmidty.com/cpvirtual
*** This post was edited by Gemini on 6/27/2000. ***
It wasn't biased at all, it was just poor reporting. First thing they teach you in journalism 101: don't reprint press releases (or the phone equivalent).
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 34
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 34
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