Raddison wrote:
pavement88 wrote:
Great point. The running media for the most part has been silent and that is disappointing.
I can only guess that it is out of fear of losing access to the other BTC athletes and/or some kind of fear of Nike.
This is the problem with journalism in any niche area. In order to put out regular issues with "exclusive" content they have to be careful not to bite the hand that feeds them. In automotive journalism car manufacturers would rank the journalists based on their reviews. If you were company friendly you got to review the super deluxe sports models, if somewhat friendly, the mid range models, if you were in their naughty list, the basic models, if you were hostile you didn't get an invite. I'm pretty sure if an running media came down heavily on this fund raising scheme they would be blacklisted.
The running media will only cover this stuff once it breaks in the main stream media. Even then it will be covered in a Gaultesque style.
I used to work in the media, it's very high-school like. The more senior reporters got to ask the first questions at press conferences and they had an order of chairs in which you sat in (similar to orchestra chairs, first chair, second, etc.).