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NASCAR courting "citizen journalists"

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by imjustagirl, Jun 2, 2009.

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  1. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    The release says they'll get credentials and media center access too.

    Not that NASCAR could have done anything to stem the tide of the shrinking press corps over the last couple years, but it should have turned the spotlight on itself at some point to see how much of a joke their "access" is.
     
    playthrough, Jun 3, 2009
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  2. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    So did I.....and I'm a 24 fan, but that was fucking funny. :D
     
    Double J, Jun 3, 2009
    #14
  3. Frank_Ridgeway

    Frank_Ridgeway Well-Known Member

    The hell he is! [/repo man]

     
    Frank_Ridgeway, Jun 3, 2009
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  4. spaceman

    spaceman Active Member

    Money.
     
    spaceman, Jun 3, 2009
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  5. budcrew08

    budcrew08 Active Member


    "Oh, ho, ho, that's funny right thar, I tell ya whut." [/rednecks]*



    *Not really funny, don't want to get in trouble thinking I'm joking about the term fag. Carry on.
     
    budcrew08, Jun 3, 2009
    #17
  6. lono

    lono Active Member

    That 7.5 shock on the Richter scale that you just felt was David Poole rolling over in his grave.
     
    lono, Jun 3, 2009
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  7. Point of Order

    Point of Order Active Member

    Once again, NASCAR is on the cutting edge of PR. This might be laughable from a journo standpoint, but I think it will turn out to be a brilliant move from a business perspective.
     
    Point of Order, Jun 3, 2009
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  8. KJIM

    KJIM Well-Known Member

    How so, Point?
     
    KJIM, Jun 3, 2009
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  9. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Cutting edge? In the last couple years the IndyCar Series has embraced its small blog population to the point that they're at races and in the media centers. It's more of a pre-emptive strike, considering how mainstream motorsports media has been demolished. NASCAR is just finally waking up to the fact that it's not immune anymore.
     
    playthrough, Jun 3, 2009
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  10. DCaraviello

    DCaraviello Member

    Given the hundreds of reader e-mails I get each week, many NASCAR fans can indeed read and write. And folks like Ed Hinton, Bob Pockrass, Nate Ryan and the late David Poole -- which represent the main of the writers I work alongside -- are hardly "swallow-the-party-line pseudo journalists." So let's dispatch with those canards right now. This isn't 1985, when every NASCAR writer went home with 10 cartons of free smokes. We are talking about a sports league that allows its official Web site to be operated by an outside company, and allows it complete editorial freedom. Don't see that happening in the NFL.

    But that said ... not sure where this latest idea is going. I suspect it's because, with the cutbacks in newspaper coverage, a lot of media centers are half-full these days, and NASCAR is searching for other means to try and get their name out there. Perhaps they're going to try to follow the model used in the NHL. But Mizzou nails it. That's the kind of nightmare scenario that has all of us in the conventional media cringing. And of course, when/if it happens, everybody in the NASCAR press corps is going to be tainted by it.
     
    DCaraviello, Jun 3, 2009
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  11. lono

    lono Active Member

    Can't wait to see the first time Kyle Busch gets asked for an autograph or somebody asks Tony Stewart to pose with him for a picture.

    This will not end well.
     
    lono, Jun 3, 2009
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  12. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    It's OK. I mean, it's not like they'd ever refer to Tony Eury Jr. as "Stiffy" in a press conference setting.

    Oh, wait, that happened? By a "real" journalist? Huh.
     
    imjustagirl, Jun 3, 2009
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