Vonn Brinkman said:A news agency should not be biased
There's room for both IMO. I like some comment pieces in other publications, when they're clearly written as such.
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Vonn Brinkman said:A news agency should not be biased
+1.buckwheat said:they seem to report the news pretty objectively and they let the readers hash it out in the forums with very little interference.
Contrast that with the alice in wonderland, coolhand policed, roadbikereview.com farce and i'd say the site is doing a good job.
shavermac said:as examples, look at the article on Fischer being drug tested twice in one day. It takes a sympathetic tone towards the rider becaused he missed his sleep-in, and had to suffer the indiganation of a drug test. yet the sport has brought this upon itself. Landis said just the other day that everyone knows when the testers come by, so they hod off on shooting up until after they've been. so sending testing in twice in a morning is actually a good way to catch these cheats out. as another take the reporting on Basso's win up Zoncolan. Not even a question about whether he's clean on not. instead CN celebrates this past cheat, even while his teamate Pellitzoti sits on the sidelines for "biological passport irregulaties". And while we're at it, what does that expression mean anyway??! Probably cheating, probably breaking the law.
theswordsman said:Frankly, I'm satisfied with the way things are at this point in the game. The ones breaking the news and on top of the investigation are the Wall Street Journal, which I totally respect, and the New York Times, which lost me with some of their cycling stories and titles last year, but is gradually earning my trust on this.
They're also both daily publications as well as online entities, so an important story that has legs is well worth their while. Other sources of new information are also print publications, like Bicycling (kind of) and Sports Illustrated (definitely). Cycling Weekly will have opinions that will make it into print. But a breaking story like this is really for daily or weekly publications that can get it out in detail while it's fresh, with charts and graphs and sidebars.
I'd rather have Cycling News use their resources to report on the Giro, Dauphine, Tour de Suisse and the Tour, and enhance news taken from the WSJ or NYT and present that as well.
But let's face it, we're going to do a better job of keeping each other informed than anyone will do for us. We've got members from all over the world, who read things in a lot of languages. If in the long run, we can eliminate some of the weaker threads and have some that are focused and worth following, we can stay pretty well on top of things.
Kudos to all the people who've put in an effort so far. And thanks to all of you who were at the Landis letter thread as the story unfolded - those were the best hours I ever had here.
Mrs John Murphy said:CN needs to grow some balls when it comes to asking questions about doping.