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Don't think I've ever seen any coverage of them.
Typical moto behavior and imo a reason this sport will always be a secondary level sport.. It has nothing to do with amateur participants and all the other bs about cost but more to do with the lack of progressive thinking. It's a sport that's stuck in a "this is what we are" mentality.
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Either way, i'm gutted for the guy. I think he has done more for this sport than most of us can even begin to understand, and the fact that he is still trying to race after hitting the deck so damn hard so may times shows that he still has a fire in him. However, things are really starting to look grim for him, maybe it's time to call it a day.
Youd think they'd at least have the top 3 up there at the same time,
Why do you think it has shitty tv coverage? You can damn near get anything on Tv.
It's a sport that relies on the event (racing) itself. Well that doesn't cut it. If you don't race dirt bikes the likely hood you stop and watch is slim. It needs drama to sell. We need riders that don't like each other and let it be known both on and off track. We need personalities and frankly I know they're are some but what we see is a bore for most. People loved the emotional Tomac on the podium but jeez that was hardly anything... You guys can bitch all you want about what has become of this generation and the wanting the dirt, the need for all info etc but guess what? It's not changing! So you can adapt to the we want all info and we want it now mentality along with drama or you can be what this sport is and that's stuck in this is what we are and how we like it. But I will guarantee that what we have now will be the best it gets and it will gradually fade back to what it was.
so continue on with moto ways if you please but if you do quit bitching about lack of coverage and info and just be happy they give you the pleasure of watching it at all because after all you need them more then they need you.
Some media outlets like the press conference style. Others like to try and get more one-on-one with the riders away from the formal setting.
But I'm sure all your ass kissing followers will come tell me what's what and that's exactly what you want..
YS likes it that way because they can control the questions we ask. Once an journalist from the Belgian Television BRTN|VRT (Sporza) asked a question about doping rumors around Barragan. Those television channel does also work at Soccer/Cycling/Tennis/Olympics... And thought it was appropriate journalism. He got banned from the press room, one year later the live broadcasting got canceled on the Belgian Television.
GuyB everyone makes his choices. If you choice to run around making jokes with the riders. Laugh around talk with their girls about the event, about the babies. Then I understand that you can't ask difficult questions. But denying SlowDude his fair points, is putting your head into the sand.
And nobody said that asking a difficult question is the same as acting like a dick. I've talked with RV about doping and the suspicions around Aldon. I talked with Barcia about Stewart and his positive dope test and what he thought would do with the sport. The year after I met RV again and we've talked again about other topics off course and about Tomac going to green. He gave it to me as an scoop.
I asked the questions I asked because if a photographer is a journalist and has the potential to lose his access as a photographer because of his questions as a journalist, I could see them holding back from asking questions that push buttons.
If there is free access, no holds on the press, then I could see people asking the tough questions. Like every time Milsaps was in front of one "so what was in your locker?" Roczen "Why did you really leave The Bakery? The money?"
The press has free access to Bill Billacheck sp? They are always let in, they always ask the tough questions and he never answers anything! Good stuff!
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Shit, with a camera a press pass you can be a moto journalist yourself. It's not like there are any real qualifications other than just getting out there and doing it, and being able to do it decently.
Yep. Life in miniature. This is how the world works. This is reality. To expect anything else, especially in a small
sport as this is kinda foolish thinking IMO.
And let's get real.
It is a small sport.
TV wise, more people tune in to a rerun of a Poker match than a MX National.
If you owned a TV station, and 2 million people watched a card game, and some guy wanted to pay you
5 thousand for 3 minutes of ad time, and some other guy like DC wanted you to show a MX National that would
pull 100,000 people with a sponsor that only comes up with 700 bucks, where are you gonna go?
Furthermore, and I'm not kissin ass, this place IMO, and the guy that runs it, has become the standard in this sport.
Fair, honest and timely reporting, with the public at large voicing their feelings 24/7.
Who else is even coming close?
No, you guys might want a more TMZ kinda place, (those that were around remember how the TFS "Racetalk"
thing worked out), but are not in touch with how the real world works.
Fuck it , time to fall in line. This sport has reached its pinnacle for growth anyway...
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