We supplied broadcast quality footage; we did everything we could. We held a successful press day back in May (and which David attended) to alert the media to this wonderful story. We were told that it was SO packed with human interest that we'd get features in one particular national broadsheet AND probably off the sports feature pages AND even perhaps in the magazine. Nowt has come out. It's a great shame.

The feature is a dying art. Not only is it expensive to produce, consumers it seems have a shorter attention span than they used to. In a world where people try to reduce the most complicated news stories to 140 characters, what hope is there for articles of 2000 or 5000 words?

There are still some exceptions. Magazines like the Economist's Intelligent Life, The Atlantic Monthly and occasionally the broadsheet Sunday magazines still publish stories that go underneath the press-release.

It's great that the story was covered at all, but having read Jo's insights on her Twitter account in the weeks leading up to the record attempt, one has to imagine that a story developed from being on-board the boat during the attempt would have been a better story.

We supplied broadcast quality footage; we did everything we could. We held a successful press day back in May (and which David attended) to alert the media to this wonderful story. We were told that it was SO packed with human interest that we'd get features in one particular national broadsheet AND probably off the sports feature pages AND even perhaps in the magazine. Nowt has come out. It's a great shame.

The feature is a dying art. Not only is it expensive to produce, consumers it seems have a shorter attention span than they used to. In a world where people try to reduce the most complicated news stories to 140 characters, what hope is there for articles of 2000 or 5000 words?

There are still some exceptions. Magazines like the Economist's Intelligent Life, The Atlantic Monthly and occasionally the broadsheet Sunday magazines still publish stories that go underneath the press-release.

It's great that the story was covered at all, but having read Jo's insights on her Twitter account in the weeks leading up to the record attempt, one has to imagine that a story developed from being on-board the boat during the attempt would have been a better story.

Being bitter isn't going to impress an Editor, and if her only hook was that these are women, well no wonder she couldn't sell the story. Who in the Vendee Globe got more coverage than Davies and Caffari? Sour grapes, and a real disservice to professional sailing.

Just a small sample of proof that the media liked the story, just not this writer:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/sa...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hamp...

http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/4439334.All...

http://yachtpals.com/round-britain-record-4161

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/22/women-...

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/sail...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/06/15/how.sailors...

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4439334.All_gir...

I for one think that Dee Caffari and Sam Davies are stars! I'm also really happy that Jo has been turned from a sceptic to an evangelist.

I'd also join a boycott of papers. I can't actually remember the last time I read something in a Sunday glossy pullout that I cared less about – well maybe A.A. Gill's restaurant reviews in Style. We want names though – who are these faceless 'editors' who think they know what we would like to read?

Shame on the Editors of the UK. Let the papers die – they are dinosaurs that deserve to suffer the same fate as the monsterous lizards of old.