JC / Railbird

What’s Lost

… when newspaper reporters on the racing beat are laid off or retired, then replaced by general sports writers, who might be fine journalists but have little understanding of the sport or the industry and its ongoing stories, is exemplified in this dull bit of LA Times reporting on SoCal synthetic surface tracks, which rehashes every point every racing fan or even vaguely interested reader has already come across elsewhere, padded out by press release quality quotes.

Posted by JC in Media/TV/Film, Synthetic Surfaces on 09/04/2008 @ 1:00 pm / Follow @railbird on Twitter

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