Pipe & Tobacco News

[popeofpiping]

Curious question. How do most of you receive your pipe & tobacco news? Info on new and upcoming blends, new pipe releases, changes in said blend components, personnel changes within companies, company acquisitions etc. Do you even have an interest in that information?

Other than instagram or waiting for an email from SmokingPipes I feel somewhat in the dark as to what’s going on in the industry. Am I the only one?

 

[didimauw]

I get all my information from an interesting source.

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[bullet08]

I get all my information from an interesting source.

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Ditto.

 

[bullet08]

Or, buy enough pipes and tobacco then forget about any new developments in the world of pipe smoking. I know, that will never happen.

 

[popeofpiping]

Other than tobacco legislation, I don’t believe I see any other “News” categories. No section for company press releases. So unless Joe blow hears something second hand and throws it in a thread, there isn’t much of verified news on this site. Sure you have the radio show and insider info Brian shares and or a guest. But this is a forum, not news site.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

Other than tobacco legislation, I don’t believe I see any other “News” categories. No section for company press releases. So unless Joe blow hears something second hand and throws it in a thread, there isn’t much of verified news on this site. Sure you have the radio show and insider info Brian shares and or a guest. But this is a forum, not news site.

No, it’s not a news site. But here you will find links to stories in the news that relate to pipe smoking. You will get information from people who work for the tobacco blenders. And a lot more.

For example, just recently a member posted a link to a news story about illegal briar harvesting in Spain. The briar was destined for Italy—a place that makes many of the pipes we buy. An important story, and one that so far as I can tell never made the English language press. I’d have never found it without these forums

Another example: a link to a discussion on another pipes forum where an employee of GH admitted that Kendal dark, Kendal Kentucky, and dark Birds Eye, are now all the same tobacco sold under different names. For smokers of those tobaccos, that’s news—again I found it only because of these forums.

There are many other examples.

 

[fireground_piper]

Other than tobacco legislation, I don’t believe I see any other “News” categories. No section for company press releases. So unless Joe blow hears something second hand and throws it in a thread, there isn’t much of verified news on this site. Sure you have the radio show and insider info Brian shares and or a guest. But this is a forum, not news site.

I know a lot of companies post things to their Instagram pages. Blends, sales, new pipes, etc. I feel like that's where a lot of direct announcements are currently made, the propagated to the various communities by folks.

 

[woodsroad]

Other than tobacco legislation, I don’t believe I see any other “News” categories. No section for company press releases. So unless Joe blow hears something second hand and throws it in a thread, there isn’t much of verified news on this site. Sure you have the radio show and insider info Brian shares and or a guest. But this is a forum, not news site.

“News”, as it once was, ceased to be around 2008. Now it’s all just rumors, political rabble rousing, news releases and ads for liver spot removers. Get with the program and stop asking about the man behind the curtain!

 

[popeofpiping]

“News”, as it once was, ceased to be around 2008. Now it’s all just rumors, political rabble rousing, news releases and ads for liver spot removers. Get with the program and stop asking about the man behind the curtain!

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[FLDRD]

No, it’s not a news site. But here you will find links to stories in the news that relate to pipe smoking. You will get information from people who work for the tobacco blenders. And a lot more.

For example, just recently a member posted a link to a news story about illegal briar harvesting in Spain. The briar was destined for Italy—a place that makes many of the pipes we buy. An important story, and one that so far as I can tell never made the English language press. I’d have never found it without these forums

Another example: a link to a discussion on another pipes forum where an employee of GH admitted that Kendal dark, Kendal Kentucky, and dark Birds Eye, are now all the same tobacco sold under different names. For smokers of those tobaccos, that’s news—again I found it only because of these forums.

There are many other examples.

She made the same admission / statement here to a post I had made here.
Too lazy to find the thread but it was only a week or two ago at most......

 

[kcghost]

People on this forum are source of all my news. Of course, 90% of it is crap but what is right is right as rain. They are much accurate than the news we get on boob tube.

 

[MattRVA]

Here you go…

BRIAR REPORT

Pipe smoking world's premier source of news and information

briarreport.com

 

[popeofpiping]

Here you go…

BRIAR REPORT

Pipe smoking world's premier source of news and information

briarreport.com

Wow an actual suggestion of a news site. Thank you sir I will check it out!

 

[woodsroad]

Here you go…

BRIAR REPORT

Pipe smoking world's premier source of news and information

briarreport.com

I didn’t know that Matt Drudge was a pipe smoker.

Still not “news”, though. Its link aggregation. Very different from news. News is the first-hand reporting of events by a source that has proven itself trustworthy and not unduly influenced by outside pressures. As a former photojournalist, I get damned picky about this. Anyone who believes in the fundamental importance of veracity to a free society should be just as concerned.

 

[popeofpiping]

I didn’t know that Matt Drudge was a pipe smoker.

Still not “news”, though. Its link aggregation. Very different from news. News is the first-hand reporting of events by a source that has proven itself trustworthy and not unduly influenced by outside pressures. As a former photojournalist, I get damned picky about this. Anyone who believes in the fundamental importance of veracity to a free society should be just as concerned.

I concur with this view. Which is why I believe a trustworthy not unduly influenced Pipe smoking media site would be appreciated.

 

[woodsroad]

I concur with this view. Which is why I believe a trustworthy not unduly influenced Pipe smoking media site would be appreciated.

Unfortunately, like all media outlets, cash is king. Without sufficient advertising dollars coming in to pay for quality newsgathering and presentation, it ain't gonna happen. When I worked for a major regional newspaper, we used to complain about how our photos ended up buried on the jump, deep inside the paper, surrounded by department store, car dealership and real estate ads. How naive we were! Those ads fueled our paychecks.

 

[Old Smokey]

I get all my information from an interesting source.

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OMG me too! TWINSIES!

 

[Chalaw87]

I get all my information from an interesting source.

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I literally laughed out loud when I clicked the link.

 

[vosBghos]

“News”, as it once was, ceased to be around 2008. Now it’s all just rumors, political rabble rousing, news releases and ads for liver spot removers. Get with the program and stop asking about the man behind the curtain!

just like all music is commercials now

 

[krizzose]

… the fundamental importance of veracity ….

I vehemently believe in the fundamental importance of voracity