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To be honest, this thread is likely to upset some people because we know that a good chunk of the people involved in these sites read this forum.
2018 kinda killed my interest in motorsport journalism (the reading/listening of it I mean) because there's too much infighting. MP and JH had a few tense arguments on MWM, and whilst it may have been more good-natured and less tense to them, it did come across quite aggressive. I listen to the podcasts to relax in the car, and frankly, MWM became...less relaxing. I've now stopped listening to it for the first time in god knows how many years. I'm sure many still enjoy it, but I stopped finding it enjoyable.
And now, I feel like everybody (and I do include all sides of it when I say everybody) is feeling quite self-important and wanting to tell me their opinion on things rather than just report news. People taking sides and taking the opportunity to take digs at the opposition, and the endless points scoring is just...tiring. I want to enjoy motorsport, and whilst the motor racing itself is still good, the way it's being reported I don't enjoy anymore. I now find myself just tuning in for races, and I didn't see that coming. Even my own project has not been given the attention it deserves, partly due to my circumstances changing, but also due to my love of the sport being reigned in a little.
S365 certainly has a lot of problems. The clickbait is very frustrating. But I also think it's unfair how John and his team are treated - as if everywhere else is a sea of perfection. It seems accepted that we are to ridicule S365 over clickbait and insane articles over confirmed Ferrari LMP1 projects, but we are to not mention the downsides of other sites. That is very unfair.
Whilst the news on motorsport is easier to find than it ever has been, and we're all thankful for that, the general 'feeling' when reading it is quite a negative one - even in positive articles.
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