We also abuse animals!
What does a lowly radio series have to do in order to get some press around this territory?
First, our very own local entertainment rag What’s Up Yukon rejects all twelve of Mark’s series-related column pitches, including one called “What’s Smelling Up Yukon.” Then the Yukon News refuses to run a fluffly human interesty type story about the groundbreaking reporting the series has done over the last two seasons. And now, a local animal rights activist has written a stinging letter to the Whitehorse Star (Friday, May 16, 2008) about CBC’s coverage of the Yukon Quest–with nary a mention of Smells Like Yukon.
What’s up with that?
We may be biased, but in our humble opinion, no one has done more to abuse sled dogs than Smells Like Yukon. We’ve been picking on that malamute husky on the Yukon’s Coat of Arms for over one year and in no less than two segments of the radio series. What do we have to do to get some recognition around here–another year, and another segment? We’ll do it, if you make us.
While we’re at it, we’d also like to register our formal displeasure that, for the last 15 months, Smells Like Yukon has been competely ignored by the comic strip Doonesbury.
But we do have some good news, as well. It appears in the form of an ad published in the same issue of the Whitehorse Star as Mike Grieco’s letter.
For obvious reasons, Mark is extremely relieved that someone is finally taking a stand for the defense of Yukon “pests.”