Friday, April 3, 2009

2nd Mayor Florencio Bernabe Cup

The 2nd Mayor Florencio Bernabe Cup is set to run on April 4-5 in ParaƱaque City but we haven't seen any announcement in the main stream media.

That's the gloomy part in promoting grass roots chess in the country.

It's either the tournament organizers and sponsors have something for the media or the tournament carries the name of superstars like GM Wesley So to ensure media mileage.

If you lack these two requirements, you have to content yourselves with free media alternatives such as blogging.

Lesson: the political economy of mass media is a powerful force -- certainly more deadly than the poisoned pawn.

1 Comment:

chessph said...

Is this confirmed? I know NCFP carries it in their list of events but I thought this one's postponed or moved into a later date...