Maybe even a blessing in disguise. When people start writing about you, sooner or later you get some jackass who has an agenda that they think you will fit perfectly, even if they have to stretch the facts to make their point. It really leaves a bad taste in your mouth about the media, can be rather upsetting, and you may wish that you never allowed yourself to get extended beyond a relatively low profile, even if there is a connection with doing business.
When I was working in the states, I got into a number of woodworking publications, including the cover shot on the big daddy of them.
It tickled my ego for a bit, and brought in some work, but last but not least, some turd comes along wanting to write an article on apprenticeships, using my situation with my laddie as one example, but he wanted to have a difficult relationship to describe, so he made the story about my shop sound like I was abusing my apprentice. I never even considered it a difficult relationship, would not have stood for that in the slightest, nor was I being particularly severe on my apprentice, just par for the course in trying to teach a trade to some young person that loves himself and doesn't have a clue about work discipline. He even went so far as to say in the article that I was having some personal problems, which I still don't have a clue what in hell he was referring to. Even if I was, to say that in a woodworking book, bent me out of shape to no end. So, I wrote the author of the article, among other things telling him how disappointed I was in allowing someone to come into the privacy of my shop for a day, who would then go about construing everything away from the truth for the benefit of adding lines about their subject.....in spite of whatever he may have heard from my apprentice when I may have been out of earshot, or later. He writes me back, says that getting written about is like looking in a mirror, and though you may not like what you see, you are looking at the truth. That's the worst kind of writing, being harmful, and I was livid, and it permanently put me off getting into further publications..
Sorry to have written about myself here, Jerry, just wanted to possibly give you another angle with which to look at the thing. You do yourself great justice positively, the way you yourself write about and show your activities in the forest. No doubt that further opportunities will arise.
Blue collar workers will always hold that position in the eyes of the "educated"
That's my impression of the Nat Geo crowd. I don't like to lump people together but they don't seem to be able to have an article that doesn't have some message that humans are crapping on their planet. I'm just speculating here anyway.
