Open letter to Bob Thick. Muscle Mag owners, editors and photographers should be sent press passes and complimentary tickets to the big shows. They shouldn't have deadlines or have to beg for passes.
Almost every type of event has a deadline or you need a request to get a press pass. Get real. I recently needs to cover a rock band --> You had to apply for a press pass, and just for the particular band you want to cover, and once you got it, you needed to get approval to get in with the camera, and then you can only shoot pictures, without flash, for the first three songs only. And only on that band. It is much stricter that you guys think.
For a political event, to get backstage, you need to get approved, and you can only shoot at various times, in various places.
And for the bigger events, like the Olympia and the Arnold, which have limited space for photographers, you must apply early. Simple as that.
If you put Blechman and Robin Chang together I doubt they'd have more than 100 combined IQ points between them.
You dont know either one of them. Both are pretty smart individuals, who know how to run things. As for Robin Chang, the man has a ton of patience and handles the stress of putting up a major show quite well. Many times, he is at his office until way past 8pm at night. There are so many details to go over at this type of show, including expo, insurance, hotel, flights are 150 competitors, judges, rooms, buses and so much more.
As for Romano
Romano likes to stir up shit. Piss people off. End of story.
