Velonews: softselling Floyd's charges?

[Oldman]

We've all had time to explore the various media response to Floyd's accusations. Even lazy, image driven site like SI.com have a variety of takes on the story. Any reason why Velonews leads with the discreditation of Floyd's story?

 

[thehog]

We've all had time to explore the various media response to Floyd's accusations. Even lazy, image driven site like SI.com have a variety of takes on the story. Any reason why Velonews leads with the discreditation of Floyd's story?

Because Armstrong was on his cell all last night drumming up support from the various media outlets.

What might be trouble for him is that he might not be as popular now as he used to be so the influence may be a little less.

Expect to see a lot more articles like this over the coming days.

 

[Anonymous]

have a look at the tour of california live tracker and see whos name appears there.. then you have your answer

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

It is pretty clear that Armstrong's PR's have been working the phones getting the media to follow the party line. The Guardian in the UK is following a very pro-Armstrong line (and not allowing any comments after the articles either), Yahoo is also following a very pro-Armstrong line as well - witness the ****poor Dan Wetzel article.

 

[asnicol]

i wouldn't expect anything less from the Guardian or Yahoo. The times have also stopped people from commenting but have found them to write about what Landis is saying. The BBC yesterday refused to make any comments on Armstrong, ithey only reported "Landis admitted he doped"!

 

[Anonymous]

CylclingNews is no better

The initial report of FL's confession by CV reporter Greg Johnson is as much an anti Landis editorial as it is news reporting. A statement like "Landis allegations must be viewed with scepticism after he previously denied doping", while it may be true is not journalistic reporting. It is editorial commentary. Hack amateur writing.

 

[Anonymous]

ummmm...let's see...if you go to velonews there is gigantic surround banner from radioshack with Lance making the world go round enclosing their text...also the good dr.kay in those landis emails released by the brilliant livestrong PR team calls a higher up in control of velonews a cokehead...and like that earth globe lance is spinning with his wheel up in the corner of velonews velo is spinning as they know who is behind their ****ing paychecks...

 

[richwagmn]

We've all had time to explore the various media response to Floyd's accusations. Even lazy, image driven site like SI.com have a variety of takes on the story. Any reason why Velonews leads with the discreditation of Floyd's story?

Because Velonews is in the tank for LA. Hiring a Livestrong media hack like Wilcockson to trash AC every chance he got during last years tour is all you need to know.

 

[BroDeal]

...also the good dr.kay in those landis emails released by the brilliant livestrong PR team calls a higher up in control of velonews a cokehead...

I hear it is the managing editor, Rogers. What is the story behind this?

 

[Oldman]

I hear it is the managing editor, Rogers. What is the story behind this?

Sounds like someone that parties without collecting the guests cell phone/cameras. Every media manipulator needs a Tool in the pocket and it would be interesting to know if it's that or a direct USA Cycling connection. They seem to shill for the Feds pretty reg'lar too.

 

[pedaling squares]

The initial report of FL's confession by CV reporter Greg Johnson is as much an anti Landis editorial as it is news reporting. A statement like "Landis allegations must be viewed with scepticism after he previously denied doping", while it may be true is not journalistic reporting. It is editorial commentary. Hack amateur writing.

Hmmm, hadn't really thought about that. We seem to share an opinion that Johnson's comment was probably accurate. Landis spent nearly 4 years denying doping in nearly every available forum. Given such a dramatic flip I think there is a need to make a comment about that flip, but perhaps Johnson should have shied away from telling readers how they "must view" the situation. Yeah, the more I look at that quote the more I agree it could have been written so as to state the obvious without losing objectivity.