The current quality or otherwise of F1 Journalism
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Been having a bit of clear out of the loft, a process that's taken longer than it should as a result of being diverted through the reading of old copies of Autosport, Motor Sport and the much missed Grand Prix International magazine.
It maybe just me but I can't help but think that the quality of F1 Journalism has taken a bit of dive compared to the past.
There are some exceptions. Nigel Roebuck for one. Mark Hughes is good - if a little 'geeky'.
But compared to the depth and style of past F1 journalism, I just sense that these days, what's out there is just a bit, well, bland.
Am I alone on this line of thinking?
It maybe just me but I can't help but think that the quality of F1 Journalism has taken a bit of dive compared to the past.
There are some exceptions. Nigel Roebuck for one. Mark Hughes is good - if a little 'geeky'.
But compared to the depth and style of past F1 journalism, I just sense that these days, what's out there is just a bit, well, bland.
Am I alone on this line of thinking?
It's not just F1 journalism. It's all journalism. There are now orders of magnitude more people "doing" journalism than there were before the internet took off, but the pie is still the same size. So, quality suffers. Look at your average PH article compared to 10 years ago - most are just an uncritically regurgitated press release.
I think there is a tendancy towards sensationalism in all modern media. Real life not selling enough papers or getting enough clicks, make s
t up or blow the facts out of all proportion. Journalistic integrity is sadly a thing of the past in the internet era, publish first research later...if there is time.
t up or blow the facts out of all proportion. Journalistic integrity is sadly a thing of the past in the internet era, publish first research later...if there is time.HardtopManual said:
It's not just F1 journalism. It's all journalism. There are now orders of magnitude more people "doing" journalism than there were before the internet took off, but the pie is still the same size. So, quality suffers. Look at your average PH article compared to 10 years ago - most are just an uncritically regurgitated press release.
Almost exactly what I was going to say, minus the PH bit (almost never read them at all) It's all gone downhill because of the modern need to have "new" information every second of the day. Before Autosport got taken over by Motorsport.com people were constantly complaining that there weren't new articles. Quite often the site was static from week to week but the articles were high quality. Now it's all the keyword friendly "ten things we didn't know etc" type of articles.
Same things with "newspapers". It's all about recycling articles as much as possible to look like there are constant "new" stories and regurgitating twitter posts is one of the favourite ways. Papers like the Daily Mail have it down to an art form now. I'd love to see what they make from the adverts on their sites.
Same things with "newspapers". It's all about recycling articles as much as possible to look like there are constant "new" stories and regurgitating twitter posts is one of the favourite ways. Papers like the Daily Mail have it down to an art form now. I'd love to see what they make from the adverts on their sites.
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