Do any news reporters read this site?

[Mississippian]

As someone with a journalism background, I am stunned that there was apparently no reporting of the fact that an architectural firm posted a proposed plan for the DVC Contemporary Resort and claimed it had the contract.

This isn't rumor, it is fact. Not it may not be correct, but the fact that the rendering was posted (and is now removed) and that Disney refuses to comment is news.

Is anyoneelse surprised that this didn't make it into print?

 

[Chuck S]

DVC news isn't what most news agencies consider newsworthy. Disney commissions many designs that they never act upon.

 

[Werner Weiss]

I agree with the answer from Chuck S.

When (or if) an official announcement is made and a press release is issued, most news publications will ignore the news. The Orlando Sentinel, some other Florida publications, some real estate publications, a few miscellaneous publications, and, of course, Disney fan Web sites will carry the news. The rest of the press will ignore the news, just as they ignore most of the other press releases they receive.

 

[CarolA]

As someone with a journalism background, I am stunned that there was apparently no reporting of the fact that an architectural firm posted a proposed plan for the DVC Contemporary Resort and claimed it had the contract.

This isn't rumor, it is fact. Not it may not be correct, but the fact that the rendering was posted (and is now removed) and that Disney refuses to comment is news.

Is anyoneelse surprised that this didn't make it into print?

Nope, the audience for this type of news is pretty small.

This was not news, at best it would have been a company press release and not worthy of much newsprint.

I am surprised that you think this was worthy of a new story.

 

[VMS]

I actually answered an AP reporter's request on this site for someone to contact him if you had been through any of the 2004 hurricanes at Disney and were planning on going back. We PMd eachother, and when I researched and found he was reputable, I called the number he gave. I was interviewed over the phone, and his article quoting me was carried by AP nationwide in May. He never notified me when it was going to print, said it was not up to him when or who would carry it. I found out when a friend's husband let us know he saw it in the paper. Turns out it was carried many places throughout the country. PS - this trip we were there closely watching Hurricane Ernesto (amounted to nothing much more than very empty parks). Two years ago we got "stuck" at Disney four extra days due to Frances.

 

[CarolA]

I actually answered an AP reporter's request on this site for someone to contact him if you had been through any of the 2004 hurricanes at Disney and were planning on going back. We PMd eachother, and when I researched and found he was reputable, I called the number he gave. I was interviewed over the phone, and his article quoting me was carried by AP nationwide in May. He never notified me when it was going to print, said it was not up to him when or who would carry it. I found out when a friend's husband let us know he saw it in the paper. Turns out it was carried many places throughout the country. PS - this trip we were there closely watching Hurricane Ernesto (amounted to nothing much more than very empty parks). Two years ago we got "stuck" at Disney four extra days due to Frances.

Hurricanes are newsworthy... Rumors about Disney possibly building something aren't.... There are SO many Disney rumors, false starts etc, that anyone who published them all would probably be laughed at after a while. (For fun I sometimes go see what Jim Hill is up to this week....)

 

[DVCconvert]

I am stunned that there was apparently no reporting of the fact that an architectural firm posted a proposed plan for the DVC Contemporary Resort and claimed it had the contract.

Time to bone up on a few classes!
-- gee....the middle east....upcoming elections....Iran...Iraq....Isreal....Palistine....Bird Flu.....Possible ressession.....the HP 'scandal'...how to treat terroist prinsoners....Oil/gas prices....Darfur....Spinach.....

Yup....I'm "stunned" too!!!

 

[Viki]

Time to bone up on a few classes!
-- gee....the middle east....upcoming elections....Iran...Iraq....Isreal....Palistine....Bird Flu.....Possible ressession.....the HP 'scandal'...how to treat terroist prinsoners....Oil/gas prices....Darfur....Spinach.....

Yup....I'm "stunned" too!!!

I'm not sure this is entirely fair. From what I view on CNN every morning in the entertainment section, and from what I listen to on the entertainment channels and other cable networks over night, I think there is a need for a glut of informatin on all things news!

 

[Sammie]

Nope, the audience for this type of news is pretty small.

This was not news, at best it would have been a company press release and not worthy of much newsprint.

I am surprised that you think this was worthy of a new story.

I would say the audience is about the size of the DIS DVC forums.

 

[Mississippian]

Thank you for your responses, but I know that from my journalism background we've looked at architectural drawings and reported on the stores being featured. I just find this newsworthy.

Did the Orlando Sentinal report on this?

I happen to think anything the Disney corporation does is newsworthy, and find it odd that this has been allowed to simmer unreported.

 

[burnsoc]

I've seen the Sentinel report on CRT reservations hoopla a few years back (poorly done too). So I don't see why this wouldn't attract their attention. Every time I'm down there I see items on the news about Disney. This last trip I saw a three minute piece about the new biometrics scanners Disney installed.

 

[Mississippian]

Nope, the audience for this type of news is pretty small.

This was not news, at best it would have been a company press release and not worthy of much newsprint.

I am surprised that you think this was worthy of a new story.

Certainly the Orlando Sentinal and other Florida newspapers would find it newsworthy. I would think anything Disney does is news for them.

I'm not talking about a major news story here. It's just a little item of interest that I think the Florida press and perhaps the Wall Street Journal would be on top of.

 

[RumpleMom]

I would rather see a news story on anything that is happening at "The Happiest Place on Earth", new Disney technology, innovative ideas, than anything going on in Hollywood.

 

[tjkraz]

Where's the story?

Proposed artwork for a resort that's been rumor mill fodder since the 90s was spotted on-line and removed hours later. Disney and the firm declined to comment.

That's news?

 

[Happy Birthday Cat]

Where's the story?

Proposed artwork for a resort that's been rumor mill fodder since the 90s was spotted on-line and removed hours later. Disney and the firm declined to comment.

That's news?

IMHO, Yes.

Especially since it was on-line, then removed. That's what made it news.

HBC

 

[Mississippian]

Where's the story?

Proposed artwork for a resort that's been rumor mill fodder since the 90s was spotted on-line and removed hours later. Disney and the firm declined to comment.

That's news?

Is wasn't just anyone posting this. It was an architectural firm who said they had been selected as the lead architect for the project.

This is the FACT that everyone knows. You put a reporter on this fact, and then ask everyone for a comment. If you do this quickly, before everyone gets their story straight, then you get more facts. Even if you don't get any more information, the fact that everyone refuses comment carries a message of its own.

As I said before, I'm not talking about a major story here. It's an interesting tid-bit of interest to any Disney fan, stock market investor or Florida resident.

 

[tjkraz]

Is wasn't just anyone posting this. It was an architectural firm who said they had been selected as the lead architect for the project.

There was also a "lead architect" on the DVC Eagle Pines resort, which is now barely a footnote in WDW history. I'm sure that Disney has commissioned dozens (if not hundreds) or architectural designs over the years that have never seen the light of day.

This is the FACT that everyone knows.

"Everyone" meaning dozens of people on the DIS, right?

If you were a working journalist who did not happen to see the artwork before it was removed from the website, would you potentially stake your career on this story? The thought "hmmm, what if this is just some fanboy photoshop hoax" would never even enter your mind?

You put a reporter on this fact, and then ask everyone for a comment. If you do this quickly, before everyone gets their story straight, then you get more facts.

Who's to say that didn't happen?

Even if you don't get any more information, the fact that everyone refuses comment carries a message of its own.

Yes, but such denials don't help make the story any more newsworthy in this case.

As I said before, I'm not talking about a major story here. It's an interesting tid-bit of interest to any Disney fan, stock market investor or Florida resident.

Give me a few minutes and I could dig up concept artwork that's been openly posted on Disney fan sites for dozens of attractions and resorts that have never seen the light of day. This is no different. Walt Disney World rumors are a dime-a-dozen and I suspect the Orlando Sentinel has little interest in lending any credence to such rumors.

When it's announced, it's newsworthy.