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I grew up racing no cal CMC/AMA as a kid. I've had a passion for bikes and motors as long as I can remember.
And you're one person here I would never disrespect. I'd be a fly on your wall any day.....( just to hear the bench racing stories )... I swear.... hehehehe
With that said.... Do you know why cops wear kevlar vest...? Cause fuckers shoot bullets at them. If you can't stand the heat then... well you know.
We can all agree these guys don't make much cash, so whats to lose..? You can't be a friend and a journalist at the same time. It doesn't make for good journalism.
I think I understand that to be a journalist in this sport, you're fucked. If you tell the truth about what you know or think you know, you're fucked by the industry.
If you don't tell what you know, then you are straight up lying to the people you're writing to. Again you're fucked.
So whats the answer...? IMO its GET THE FUCK OFF THE FENCE. Make up your mind and tell one or the other to fuck off. Either tell the industry " Hey I'm just doing my job " or to the people that read what you've reported " fuck off, I know whats going on but I'm not going to tell you ". Can you still be a journalist without readers....?
Politicians Suck for the very same reason. Always on the fence, acting like they're not..... BULLSHIT.
Has anyone else reported what I reported? Or is this just more "same information everyone else has already"?
Why do you think they have been "banned" and lost advertising before.
I don't always agree with Jody or MXA, but I respect the fact they put themselves out their for stating their opinions.
As far as why RD's bike wouldn't run and why JB's and CR's bikes died is important to me. I'm a motorhead as are many riders and we want to know. I also want to know why CR pulled off in the 2nd moto.
The press has a choice to make, tell us what we want to know or not for fear of being "banned'. You can't be friends and be unbiased in your reporting.
Tell what really happened or simply report what the riders and factories want us to know...
Now, knowing the context of that quote, do you still feel the same way about it?
The best part is that you guys kiss his ass just because he's "nice". But in reality he's not that, either, he's just good at making people believe things that aren't true. I have no interest in such a thing.
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Also, please tell me how a journalist is supposed to get this information.
BTW, I like your stuff but would like to get both opinions and facts. If it is an opinion, make it clear - same goes for facts.
I told the truth about what I know about Dungey leaving Suzuki, and you guys still whine. Do you think Suzuki wants me saying that?
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And on Motocross.com I pointed out they dropped out for the same issue as well.
But here's the bottom line: If I (or anyone else) gives you something like "Both bikes quit because of the same, heat-related issue" you can bet that that's the best information we could get because, again, we can't look inside the engines ourselves. So stating "Honda won't reveal" in many cases is implied regardless.
Now that's some bad PR.................................
As far as working somewhere else goes. If they don't make much money isn't that something they should be looking at anyways.....?
Don't rely on us to interpret an implied meaning.
Don't make us "read between the lines" and allow us to reach 100+ inaccurate conclusions...
That's what starts 1/2 the arguments on here, trying to interpret what is really being said or implied...
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I couldn't be clearer the majority of the time. If people get it wrong, it's on them.
Have I failed to be clear in this thread so far?
It's just my opinion, of which I'm painfully aware of how worthless and insignificant it is.
the only thing I could possibly say to that, is that if they are "journalists" then don't they have some sort of duty report "the truth" as they know it? Their "ethical' duty as a journalist is to dig for the truth and report it.
If the riders/teams don't want anything to get out, then they shouldn't tell ANYONE. If they tell someone, then THEY are the source of the leak, not their friend they told.
But I guess it all depends on the informatin...if Suzuki is bringing in a HUGE new sponsor, getting that leaked would be different that leaking the news about Dungey getting a DUI or something.
Anyway, my point is that if Riders want to have journalists in their inner circle then they need to be careful about leaking any info to them.
Of course, maybe the moto journalists aren't even journalists at all...maybe my standards are too high??? Maybe they are just "bloggers" and thus shouldn't be held to the high standard that true journalists should be held too (and if that's true, moto needs a true journalists).
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I think that if the mainstream sports world knew how much these racers really make, that would be awesome for the sport in general. They'd take us more seriously. And the same can be said for knowing what injuries these guys race with (and don't race with).
I don't know how that could be done, though, because contracts are with the teams and the teams have no such contracts with the racing series.
Stick and ball sports have those rules because of gambling. They realize how much greater their audience is because of gambling. NASCAR has disclosure rules in place as well, because of gambling. They won't come right and say that's why, but it is why. People betting on sports is a multi-billion dollar industry and increases TV viewership significantly, because now the fan actually has some skin in the game and you can't make it fair and get it on the boards in Las Vegas, unless there's full disclosure
Otherwise, why bother disclosing your bike's weakness or your own injury? What's to gain?
No answers?
And by the way, I did report something according to an unnamed source, and people then tell me I have to name the source or else it's "just speculation" or whatever.
Like I said, discussing these things with you guys is like discussing them with a woman who thinks we didn't land on the moon...
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I not a gambler and have no clue about this stuff, so an honest question....wasn't there some type of gambling on the US Open? I thought I saw odds on each rider for that race....but of course, if could have just been the odds.
Post your story, and leave it be.
Then you won't know-won't care-about all the no nothing message boarders saying it's "just speculation". Which brings up another of my long made points, in that the industry (from the riders and teams, to the journalists) are far to concerned/connected with the message boards. In my opinion the "industry" should do their thing, and let the message boards do theirs...message boards are incredibly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
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