Autoblog Spoils F1 Race - damn proud of it!
Posted by Stephen Waits Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:32:00 GMT
Well, Autoblog never covers F1 results. Furthermore, I wouldn’t expect them to put any kind of motorsports results in the title of an article. Even futhermore, I wouldn’t expect them to do this at like 0’dark thirty in the morning before 99% of us wankers have had a chance to watch it on our PVRs.
Yet, this is exactly what they did this past Sunday morning. They spoiled the race for me, and, according to many or even most of the comments, for many others as well. In my case it popped up in my RSS reader, and caught me completely off guard.
I complained to them in my comment, even asking for an apology, and here’s the official response.
Alright, enough complaining. This is a news site. We report news. It’s not often you see people asking to have their news watered down, but if that’s the consensus, so be it.
Autoblog is a constantly-evolving site, and the coverage depends on the interests of the bloggers. I got up at the crack of dawn where I am to watch the race live and posted the results as soon as it was done, earlier than many dedicated racing sites had ‘em. I figured if this F1 fan could get up to see the race at 7am, the dedicated fans in the US could stay up on a Saturday night ‘till 1 or 2 to watch it live on one of the few occasions they can, and that those who hadn’t would benefit from the news as early as they could get it. What thanks do we get? A bunch of whiners crying – we’ll mail you some official Autoblog tissues. And you’ll get your censorship for next time.
What? His attitude seems to say, I got up early in the morning to watch a race, so fuck you, I can spoil it for you if I want (even if we’ve NEVER covered F1 before, and it would have been damn easy to post it with the spoilers “after the jump”).
Is Autoblog so big now they don’t care about us little people? I called the guy an ahole several times and am glad for it.
Fuck you Autoblog. You’re out of my RSS reader.