If Bicycle Quarterly were a news magazine, I would agree with you that the writer/reporter should not insert themselves into the story (and it is far too common an issue in today's reporting). However, that's not the genre of BQ, which is a scientific log of bicycle exploration. Documenting experiments (including rides) and sharing their journey is an inherent part of that, so of course Jan is going to be in his own photos and articles. Every scientist is.
With abandon, Patrick On Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:55:26 PM UTC-6, bo richardson wrote: > > i let my subscription to BQ lapse because i got tired of photographs of Jan > first thing i learned in 8th grade journalism is the writer does not put > himself in the photos. > one highly experienced bicycle industry professional referred to BQ as > Jan's paper blog. > diversifying the writer pool and topics wouldn't hurt. > i still buy the occasional copy and i think jan's prose is less flat > and technical writerly than it used to be. > and from personal experience i know how difficult writing > in a foreign language is. > but every photograph of jann makes me cringe. > if he makes a policy of keeping himself out of the photographs i > will resubscribe. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
