Very often they act like lobbyists and not like journalists.
I dont have the opportunity to watch the formula1 coverage from britain (just sometimes the replay over a stream in the net), but the german-speaking commentators (exception ORF) are horrible and so the experts are.
It is impossible to watch a race with joy if you are not a fan of Vettel or Schumacher (they call it formula germany). They even dont show the other guys from press conference, just vettel etc.
I would like to have a discussion about the differences between lobbyism and journalism and about examples for journalists who dont act/write like lobbyists.
To have somekind of a flipchart with people who should be called (objective) journalists or lobbyists regarding formula1.
Lobbyists could do lobbying work for national, drivers, constructors or any other interests, while objective journalists dont care about such interests and are trying to give us a picture of what is happening without lobbying interests.
In Austria you could call the Co-Commentator of ORF Wurz an objective person (he is not really a journalist, but does work for ORF as a commentator)
the total opposite of him is Lauda, who is a lobbyist par exellence.
In german-speaking formula1-newspapers i havent found a really objective journalist yet, but maybe someone can add a person, who he/she thinks is an objective journalist.
And it would be nice, if other persons from other countries can add persons to a list of objective journalists and vice versa lobbyists.
Edited by YellowHelmet, 30 March 2011 - 17:09.