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22 Feb 2017, 01:58 (Ref:3713862) | #2377 | ||
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This is why people complain about Dagys. The amount of editorial slant inserted in that article is disgusting.
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22 Feb 2017, 02:47 (Ref:3713872) | #2378 | ||
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Well, unless Indy Car implodes, Marshall Pruett won't come back to doing sportscar coverage fulltime for Racer and others.
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We get tweets about which airport lounge someone is sitting in and an itinerary, because we follow on Twitter so we can get that one in a thousand meaningful nugget of news ... ten minutes sooner. Of course if it is Real news, we will hear about it at length, so what good is the tweet? None, but it generates activity. And We get to know some rumor .. . ten minutes sooner than everyone who couldn't care anyway. Same with clickbait articles ... and Mr. Daguys doesn't really do clickbait. His stuff has some substance, thought it might be stretched a little ... but in today's media environment, if you don't have a ton of twits following you and you aren't tweeting seven or nine or whatever times a day ... and if you aren't getting X number of comments per article ... Publishers couldn't care less if 1000 people write "You suck, your mom sucks, your dog sucks, your writing sucks!" If they can tell their advertisers, "Look at how active his fan base is!" that's all they want. It's better, in fact if he says outrageous things, because that brings the nuts out from under the furniture or wherever they hide, and once a good shouting match gets started ... We have all seen it. And probably, most of us have fallen for it once or twice. If we want sportscar racing to get coverage, we have two options. Pay, as in get subscriptions to magazines and websites ... or pay by putting up with ads, provocation pieces, clickbait, stupid tweets, and all that. And honestly, unless we were all paying a thousand dollars a year for website access, the publishers would still push for the lowest-common-denominator stuff. If people want to get upset about it, that's fine. If people want to walk away from the sport because of it, that's fine. The best thing to do it simply not participate in the media frenzy. Don't visit the sportscar websites more than a couple of time a week, don't follow anyone on Twitter, don't get sucked into commenting on the websites. it would still be a lot more news than the mimeographed weekly newsletter and monthly magazines covering races from three months ago which we used to get ... and we were okay with it then. |
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22 Feb 2017, 12:23 (Ref:3713982) | #2382 | |
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The DPi topic is a good example of clickbait.
ACO says DPi is good an easy to adapt to Le Mans, but it isn't what they want to go with. S365 headline is “No Mountain to Climb” for DPis in LMP1 Privateer, which is implying that they have plans for DPi in ACO competition, which isn't what the article says. Whilst S365 doesn't do clickbait in the "20 reasons IMSA is amazing" sense, it does happily twist words into a more attractive headline. You can say that's the norm, and you'd be right - but that doesn't mean it's ok. |
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And even some of Pruett's Racer articles have click-baitish titles just to get you to read the damn article, especially if you're not a hardcore fan of Indy Car or Road Racing. Only difference is that Marshall keeps the title more relevant to the actual content.
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22 Feb 2017, 15:21 (Ref:3714030) | #2384 | |
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And what's wrong with reading the rest of the article?
There might be no news but having the guy (Beaumesnil) at the Rolex and making a statement on DPi is worth reporting imo. I find it funny the ACO keeps trying to exclude all manufacturers involvement in P1-L/P2 while they're clearly after those manufacturers to participate in their series - just for them to go into GTE or P1-H. DPi could be a great compromise to accommodate more manufacturers in prototype that might have a higher interest in marketing their brand than developing their racing-to-road-use technology. Just saying. |
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22 Feb 2017, 15:41 (Ref:3714036) | #2385 | |
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"Clickbait" would be "V. Beaumasnil was asked about DPi and you'll never guess what he said ... "
As for headlines ... yeah, as I said, if we the consumers don't consume them .... but as was said people seem to be "eating it up." On the other hand, the Kardashians seem to still be really popular. Sometimes it really isn't us, and it really is the world. |
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22 Feb 2017, 16:14 (Ref:3714047) | #2386 | ||
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I actually agree with what the ACO is trying to do though, I just don't think their methods of achieving it are very good. Manufacturers should be in P1-H, not LMP2 or privateer P1-L class. Allowing manufactures into private classes doesn't solve the problem itself, only a symptom. The ACO has long been accused on not looking after the small teams, and in this case they actually are. I also think the same for IMSA - GTD (GT3) is a non-works class. I don't really think Lexus and Acura should be allowed works efforts in the class. That's what GTE is for. Let the little guys fight it out together, rather than having works backed efforts and factory drivers in there. |
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Two truths of journalism everyone really needs to just accept already:
1) All journalists will at least periodically make articles with clickbait headlines. No exceptions. Even printed newspapers have used that tactic since the earliest days of the medium. 2) All journalists will at least occasionally put blatant lies in their articles. No exceptions. The reasons may be good -such as to protect a source at risk of being exposed- or morally questionable -like pushing a non-existent narrative- but they will happen. Last edited by FormulaFox; 22 Feb 2017 at 20:04. |
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Fact is, most journalists I know (again, I cannot reveal my sources ... no actual NDA, but .... ) would Never deliberately write a lie. never. If they need to hide the identity of a source they simply leave out potentially indentifying information. As for "pushing a non-existent narrative" first off, if they create it, it exists. What we now consider to be broadly accepted understandings were at one time "non-existent narratives," points of view they just dreamed up, which made sense and became excepted ... ask Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein about their "non-existent narratives." They were each crapped on for years, for lying .... Second, most journalists I know simply do not Want to lie. Telling the truth is the whole point. There are definitely some propagandists calling themselves journalists ... pushing "false narratives," that is, understandings of a situation which do not match up with facts .... but those are not journalists. People who write lies for a living are propagandists or advertisers. Besides ... you make all these bold and totally unsupported claims ... like any other dishonest propagandist, and totally undermine your own credibility ... point out all the lies in that specific Daguys article please. Just list them and quote them. Do it. |
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There are probably lots of good places on the Internet to debate journalist and journalism, this isn't that place though.
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24 Feb 2017, 02:03 (Ref:3714381) | #2393 | ||
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This maybe the silliest question but can a private team create they own DPi car, or is it only for a manufacturers?
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Some thoughts after Daytona and Sebring tests.
- The P2 cars (not the Riley) and Nissan cars seems to be matched against each other (if the Nissan engine resist). That means that the Oreca and Ligier are at the same level. - The Mazdas and the Riley seems to be slower than the other cars. At first sight we could say that the Mazda engine is powerfull, but it could be the custom aero that gives the Mazda a 5mph final speed superiority over the Riley P2. The Mazda reachs the same final speed that the other cars, but the Riley is always 5 mph slower. Then we have the lap times, and here both cars seems to be 0.5 or 1 seconds slower than the other cars (don't count the Cadillacs). So, the Riley base chassis looks strong, but slow. - Finally we have the Cadillacs. And here is where I would love to have the data of the Dunlop tests at Sebring, because we could compare the Dallara chassis of the Cadillac against the Oreca and Ligier all with the same engine. That way we could put the Cadillac engine aside of the equation. I doubt that the engine is the only reason of the speed of the Cadillac cars. Sebring is not Daytona, and even with a air restriction, the Cadillac cars are 1 second faster all the time. Two different tracks, two different kind of tyres and two different BoP. |
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25 Feb 2017, 09:09 (Ref:3714643) | #2397 | ||
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25 Feb 2017, 14:47 (Ref:3714679) | #2398 | |
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It would probably help if somebody would run a standard Dallara as well.
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25 Feb 2017, 20:44 (Ref:3714723) | #2399 | |
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This is why bop in a top prototype class is so tricky. The fact that the Dallara was run so much more than the Mazda and ESM shows. Even if they change the bop to reduce power on the Caddy's, the torque is still there and so is the setup knowledge. To me it looks like ESM will catch them before Mazda does. If they ever catch them. Maybe Rebellion does better and is on their pace because the Oreca at the test isn't too far off.
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Is the Cadillac engine too big to apply a correct BoP? So why then IMSA allowed a 6.2 litres engine? The Gibson P2 engine is 4.2 litres, so can't be so far in overal performance, but it is. |
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