Patrick Crozier laments the fact that, unlike the mainstream press, Modern Railways doesn’t have an Internet version, and he can’t link to Roger Ford’s though-provoking article on the subject of safety.
Sadly the transport press isn’t up to speed on the interwebthingy. As Electric Nose keeps telling us, the model railway press is often quite hostile towards the internet, with the Railway Modeller famously forbidding advertisers from putting URLs in their adverts. Other magazines have condemned certain email discussion lists with the sort of venom Andrew Orlowski directs at weblogs.
They just don’t get it.
My worry is that they do get it; in that they have done the sums and they don’t add up.
This even seems to apply to major publications like the Daily Mail, Independent and (to a lesser extent) the Telegraph.
May be true about “Modern Railways”, but the “Just don’t get it” quote very much applies to the anti-Internet attitudes of some sections of the model railway press.