Discovery Channel - New York Times Letter

Sometime prior to Burning Man 2005, the BMorg made an agreement with "Discovery Times", a joint venture of two major media conglomerates Discovery Channel and New York Times. With 16 million subscribers, BMorg characterizes this joint venture as a “boutique” production company.

The exact scope as to the terms of the agreement is undisclosed by both BMorg and Discovery. However, a sum of money called a "site fee" was involved in which BMorg received payment for said fee.

As Discovery began development for the production of a show, Todd Schindler of Discovery approaches various departments within Burning Man requesting support with the following correspondence:

Hello:

My name is Todd Schindler and I'm a researcher for the Discovery Times
Channel (a joint venture between Discovery Channel and The New York Times).
As part of our new documentary program "Only in America," we'll be attending
Burning Man this year and filming an episode of the show. The program
features Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Times journalist Charlie LeDuff as the
host. At Burning Man, Charlie will be living at a theme camp and
participating in all the goings-on of the camp.

We are hoping to get as well-rounded picture about what goes on at Burning
Man as possible -- including the logistics of setting up and breaking down,
the maintenance of the city throughout the week, and also the work that the
Black Rock Rangers do. To that end, we would love to be able to accompany
some rangers as they make their rounds and/or speak to the person in charge
of the rangers about the evolution and philosophy of the group. We hope this
might be possible sometime during the week we are there. (We will be there
from Sunday, Aug. 28 until Sunday, Sept. 4).

Please let me know if we can work out a time. I greatly appreciate your
help.

Best,
Todd Schindler
Researcher, Discovery Times Channel

In response to this e-mail, according to information from Maid Marian, Todd was invited by some unknown person to embed with the Los Angeles Fire Conclave: