Why is Jim Manion so disrespectful to people? My guess is that he enjoys bossing around massive alpha males who would split him in half in any other context.
In the last 10+ years in which I have had more direct contact with him, he is always respectful. Perhaps if you attack him or his family, he takes it more personal. Or if you ask him of something and you don't get it, you think it is disrespectful. It is a business too. He is the president if that organization too.
Jim Manion: "Matt, That would be up to the promoter if he will permit you to take footage at the expo. I sincerely doubt they are going to allow someone with a camera to be filming at the expo. You will have to check with the individual promoters of the events. Jim Manion"
I then sent him an e-mail stating that I received full permission to cover the entire expo AND get backstage access to the Brehm Room at the Veteran's Memorial in Columbus, LOL. He was obviously trying to discourage me from getting coverage, in a very passive aggressive way at that, knowing full well that the YouTubers were destroying the magazines, as I said above.
Once again, you seem to think this is disrespectful because you have a vendetta against people. Stop.
The first thing says that if you are filming at a private expo with a real video camera (you know, the big ones, the ones with the lens, lights, two people crew, you need to get permission from the promoter. Hell, in any type of expo you need that. ANY - Comic Con, NFL Expo and so on. Now, in terms of small video camera, fan based, that is a different story. We all know that.
As for getting access to the Brehm room at the time (no longer there because the venue was demolished), if Lorz gave you a press pass for the Brehm room (Lorz being the ones that give out media passes at the Arnold), then you were fine. Jeez - you act like you never got a press pass outside of the bodybuilding industry. Have you ever tried to get one for a music concert - really really hard. Try a movie premiere - even harder. You need to be on assignment mostly. So enough, for years complaining about the same incident when all he did was tell you matter of fact and emailed pretty nice to you.
If you try to get a press pass at a local NPC event, you need to go through the promoter there too. Each promoter has its own policy.
