Chess audience-driven demand

It’s highly frustrating not to be able to watch what’s happening in ongoing 2009 National Age Group in Kalibo, Aklan.

All we see in the media are the who-beat-whom contents that cannot make us feel the aura and beauty of chess being fought between and among the kids.

I won’t blame the media for that kind of dead coverage. Initiatives must first come from the chess community itself.

But if the media really want the ‘clicks’ or the ‘readership,’ they must employ reporters who have the passion for chess.

The local media need resourceful and hardworking chess-educated reporters for them to get the patronage of the media-consuming public.

What if, for instance, GMANews.tv feature a “game-of-the-day” on its website in its daily coverage of the event?

Wouldn’t that be much better for the who-beat-whom style of reporting?

If I were an editor of any of our local media outfit, I’d rather shift to the strategy of institutionalizing a live-game style of reporting – and earn the recognition of being the country’s No.1 chess website, chess TV, chess radio, or chess newspaper.

I have a strong feeling that GMANews.tv can do that.

Hmmnnnn . . . what if we local chess enthusiasts send a message to GMANews.tv or other commercial news outfit about this chess audience-driven demand?