I got mail!
At 11:23pm Tuesday, I got an email with an interesting subject line:
“Tell Tampa Bay What You Think.”
“I do that at Sticks of Fire,” I thought to myself. But I opened the email, anyway, and learned that I was going to be invited to be on an exclusive panel!
Join the Tampa Bay Media Advisory Panel and tell us what’s important for you to see or hear in your local newspapers, online and in local television. Share tips and thoughts about what you care about in your community; tell us what’s important in your life.
Hmmm. Did someone read my diatribes on Sticks of Fire, and now they are reaching out for more of my spot-on opinions on the state of local media? Then I read more and found out I’m just on a generic mailing list.
I think it’s possible that they may have gotten my email address as a result of getting TBO’s daily updates, since the Tampa Bay Media Advisory Panel is…
sponsored by The Tampa Tribune, WFLa, TBO.com and Centro…
Anyway, the media giant wants your help:
The Tampa Bay Media Advisory Panel is the place to share your opinions, the place to be heard. With every survey you take comes the chance to win prizes.
Not a member yet? Join now!
Becoming a panel member is easy. Just answer a few quick questions. It’s that simple. It’s confidential and free and participation earns you the chance to win valuable prizes. No sales call will ever result from your participation.
Join now and you will be entered into our new panel member drawing to win various prizes.
Click on join now to begin.
Apparently, the Tampa Bay Media Advisory Panel would like for you to join now, join now, join now!
If you do, be prepared to answer at least 40 questions related to your demographics and news-gathering habits.
John
1 year ago
for a media organization deep in the red, they sure like to throw money at the problem with arranging / sponsoring things like this.
I can advise them right now: get out of the shadow of Mother Corporate (fat chance) and start covering the entire region as best they can again, not hyper-super-wtf-it’s-barely-Tampa-local.
Matt
1 year ago
It is hard for me to believe that in this day and age you could be so disconnected from your customer base that you would need a “media advisory panel.”
The Carl
1 year ago
Perhaps if the Trib was so interested in what anyone else thought before it wouldn’t be in the mess it is now. Just keep dancing and ignore that iceberg up ahead.