Are F1 online news sites now worse than the red tops?
Discussion
Autosport's web site have a piece from Ron today about how he feels that the Internet is becoming a pain in the ass for him as so much shite is written and not even checked before being published.
Personally if I check a news based site online I will only ever use Autosport's one. The rest are in a war of words to get people to read them, just how the red tops try and get exclusive scoops of celebs which by and large are totally false. (I have a personal friend who works on one well-known red top, and she's never been afraid of being honest to me about what they do!!)
Ron talks about how the Internet is an instant spring-board for wild scoops which never really are and how peoples words are being falsely used and twisted, far worse than the red tops and it would appear that there is no regulation which makes it even worse.
Ron is not making excuses for what happened this season, but it is an interesting angle on these numerous sites across the net that claim to have the latest scoops and exclusive insider knowledge, and unfortunately, people like 5% read these sites and take everything as being correct and without judgment!
Forums like this allow for heated debate, but when some of those debates are being fanned by shite F1 news sites, you have to start questioning what is truth and what is fiction.
Personally if I check a news based site online I will only ever use Autosport's one. The rest are in a war of words to get people to read them, just how the red tops try and get exclusive scoops of celebs which by and large are totally false. (I have a personal friend who works on one well-known red top, and she's never been afraid of being honest to me about what they do!!)
Ron talks about how the Internet is an instant spring-board for wild scoops which never really are and how peoples words are being falsely used and twisted, far worse than the red tops and it would appear that there is no regulation which makes it even worse.
Ron is not making excuses for what happened this season, but it is an interesting angle on these numerous sites across the net that claim to have the latest scoops and exclusive insider knowledge, and unfortunately, people like 5% read these sites and take everything as being correct and without judgment!
Forums like this allow for heated debate, but when some of those debates are being fanned by shite F1 news sites, you have to start questioning what is truth and what is fiction.
Edited by motormania on Monday 22 October 13:35
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