Post #784585 by Prikli Pear on Fri, Mar 2, 2018 1:57 PM

I wouldn't say it's a rule so much as an inclination.

Newsrooms have been hit with insane budget cuts over the past 20 years. Specialized beat reporters are an endangered species. Staffing is reduced. Workloads have increased while pay and hours remain awful. Quality control is erratic and online journalism is even more problematic as the siren song of cut-and-paste clickbait sucks more and more sites in. A lot of people smarter than me have recognized the problem, but as of yet nobody has come up with a workable solution.

All of which is, at best, tangential to tiki. The good news is that, for most of the country at least, tiki remains quirky and exotic. Print and broadcast media are as likely as not to offer coverage of tiki-related events simply because there are often good visuals to be had.

And yes, references to TC in Adrian's Imbibe piece were as likely to be cut for brevity as his simply forgetting to mention the site.