Would actually be a surprise if Ogier doesn't get excluded/ time penalties now
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Would actually be a surprise if Ogier doesn't get excluded/ time penalties now
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Over the last few weeks I've been experimenting with various scripts for visualising WRC rally stage results, as well as automatically generating simple text summaries (these are very basic at the moment!)
The latest report - for the Mexico rally - is available as a reveal.js slideshow at https://psychemedia.github.io/WRC_sketches/
I'd be interested to know if folk on this thread find any of the visualisations particularly useful - or useless! - as well as any ideas for the sorts of feature anyone thinks a simple script may be able to detect and what sort of "robot journalist" copy might be automatically generated as a result... The charts are all openly licensed so feel free to embed them in this thread if you want to comment on any ones in particular.
I've always found WRC.com reporting/journalism a bit like going out for a beer with your boss. He (or she) may have bad breath, body odor and severe flatulence but are you going to say anything? Are you going to mention the obvious? No, no point in biting the hand that feeds you. Shame really, but understandable. I do wish they would be more journalistic than they are otherwise they are just company representatives pushing the company line.
top 5 moments at Mexico ,including Ogiers spin.
https://youtu.be/rKeUv8hOvOI
I'm not so worried about wrc.com being tool for content marketing. It's logical and I don't expect to find news there.
What I'm annoyed about is the level of rose-tinted reporting from the accrediated media whose paychecks should come elsewhere than teams and the series directly. They seem to seriously lack teeth in their writing, because - and this is my assumption - if they'd write on time and critically, they'd probably stopped been invited to places, etc. So normally, when shit hits the fan (sometimes literally!) they just keep quiet. And once the storm of negative response from fans in social media stops, they pick up the topic the next Monday and point out the fans are wrong, we were there, it looked right.
This lack of backbone and lack of desire to bring up hot topics in real time really sucks. OK, Mexico traffic jam happened at night for them, but much of their audience were up in Europe anxiously waiting for news. Even if they'd sat in the stuck truck themselves realizing damn we're not going to make it, they refrain from any posting to wait for official announcement. In cases like bad accidents it's absolutely better to show courtesy and wait for official news, but not everything must be retweeted from the official notice board.
WRC is a small and quiet world; apparently there’s no need for a full and independent coverage. WRC broadcasts looking Brits expatriate parties and Evans tabloid style news seems to be the best we can have…
Thank God (or whoever) there’s this Forum.