25 Aug
2001
25 Aug
'01
10:30 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 09:38:34AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
Granted, the conference gets publicity. But, presumably, the magazine or other outlet gets readers and viewers. A two-way street, right?
Maybe. But so far, market forces have prompted few conferences to try to push journalists around and try to make this argument. I covered PFF's Aspen conference this week. If I had to pay $800, I probably wouldn't have gone.
Frankly, I don't understand why CFP doesn't just accept the inevitable and move the conference to Washington, D.C. permanently.
Tim, you're not thinking like a Washingtonian. The point of having CFP held in other cities (and, in the case of Toronto, another country last year) is so Washingtonians get a nice junket. -Declan