Comments on: Why Aren’t The Media All Over The Mosley Story?

By: F1-Blog » What’s Max done now

F1-Blog » What’s Max done now — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:51:31 +0000

[...] It’s strange how not many of the usual news outfits have picked up on this story (as Oliver rightly points out over on his site). [...]

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:02:43 +0000

They may have some kind of set time they want to wait before covering a story like this – see if it gets retracted or disputed or whatever.

It’s weird how there was silence, then a lot of sites covered it at once, and now the others are catching up.

By: Mary-Ann Horley

Mary-Ann Horley — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:28:55 +0000

I could happily have lived my whole life without knowing this, I’m not a prude, far from it, but Max? Ewwww

By: milos

milos — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:44:20 +0000

Looks like no one felt like loosing the pit lane or Paddock pass …

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:50:09 +0000

I think the more mainstream site starting to cover it now is a sign that there’s sufficient evidence to back it up don’t you think?

I can understand their reluctance to start with, given the FIA and therefore Max’s stance on taking legal action willy-nilly, they can all expect to be hit should it turn out to be false but they seem to have consulted their legal people in advance of running the story.

Even the News of The World’s handling of it has been a little strange. I caught the morning news and the story wasn’t even in their first edition yesterday, then it appeared on the front page of the later editions. Given that it was filmed on Friday and therefore not exactly breaking news the only reason for them delaying the printing was to check all the facts added up – obviously because it was a Sunday paper they would have had to keep it quiet for another week had they missed this week’s edition.

Mind you, on a GP weekend it may have caused even more embarassment!

By: Clive

Clive — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:54:14 +0000

Apparently Max is consulting his lawyers. He had better be! But I’m not sure his silence is a good move – a straight denial would at least have made it clear that he wasn’t accepting the accusations.

Never write in WordPress (or any other blogging software), Keith. Do it in a simple text editor that never falls over and then copy and paste it into the blog editor.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:42:03 +0000

I wrote something along these lines this morning but Wordpress seems to have eaten it which is very frustrating!

Mosley must be thinking of taking legal action against the paper or we would have had a mea culpa by now…