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15 Sep 2024, 05:21 (Ref:4226819) | #301 | |
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Depends on how you want to define independent. Independent as in having an owner who does not have a financial stake in the category or a team? Auto Action, Motorsport.com, Speedcafe and V8 Sleuth all tick that box. Doesn't mean that there aren't conflicts between some people within these organisations and some people in team land that may effect on what and what isn't reported, but that is a fact of life that will never change.
Obviously part of being accredited media requires a degree of towing the line, but that doesn't mean unfavourable news is just swept under the carpet. The reporting of the Kostecki / Erebus stoush earlier this year proved that. |
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Independent means your magazine/website/podcast etc… exists to report the news, good or bad, no matter the consequences. It was reported this week Betty has bought into AA, V8Sleuth provides stats to Supercars Media and produces their event programmes and media guide, Speedcafe could be more independent but they’ve got Supercars aligned partners and an editor who sounds like he’s getting an autograph anytime he interviews someone from the sport. None of those are properly independent and therefore are not reporting unbiased and neutral to the fans The fact some posts are defending this proves my point, most fans don’t care that the news reporting isn’t independent or unbiased. Quote:
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The fact you are arguing so hard for the existing media portrayal of Supercars, just proves my point that the fans don’t care where the news comes from and whether it’s unbiased or not.
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McKay was certainly critical of AVESCO and Tony Cochrane, but he also stuck the pen into TOCA and the traditional Bathurst as well. It said something that when Cochrane pulled his hard card, V8Supercar teams themselves gave him passes to get him into the track to report for, you know, Fairfax media, kind of a big player…. Last edited by one five five; 16 Sep 2024 at 00:10. |
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Hopefully, you've both emptied your bladders now.
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I have not listened to Apex Hunters yet but these allegations from Scott Pye seem just a bit far fetched. He seemed like he got the amount of coverage that a co-driver at a top team deserved?
Seems a long bow that Supercars media would close ranks over Erebus... |
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A motoring journalist many years ago bagged out a new model of the Toyota Camry in his weekly newspaper column. Same journalist went on holidays a month later, and rocked up at the local the Toyota Dealership to get a loan car for the week. The dealer promptly told him to f#ck off, best try Avis or Hertz.
Most journalist are lazy or like to be spoon fed, don't want to upset the honey pot. |
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Watch an episode of NRL360 or AFL360, read the opinion columns in the papers. Why can’t Australian motor racing have this? There is no fear of bagging the powers that be or calling rubbish for what it is. There is certainly barrow pushing too, but in Supercars we get nothing but how wonderful everything is. You continually reference the Kostecki saga, but that was a single story that within the sport that had little traction outside of the motor racing world. The category as a whole wasn’t getting called out, infact most of the media closed ranks as if to protect it, and the journo who did break tanks spends most of the time advocating his love for the category as a whole. |
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