WRC moves to Motors TV

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Originally Posted by Tomi

but it sounds very important.

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yes tomi :) Anyone can work in the WRC media tbh.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

yes tomi :) Anyone can work in the WRC media tbh.

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or pretend to, just make a website and pretend you are a media person, lol

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Originally Posted by Daniel

yes tomi :) Anyone can work in the WRC media tbh.

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Is that still true? ISC/North One are meant to be particularly choosey about who signs on as media. In fact there was a good piece by Martin Holmes at the end of last year in 'gpweek'.

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

Is that still true? ISC/North One are meant to be particularly choosey about who signs on as media. In fact there was a good piece by Martin Holmes at the end of last year in 'gpweek'.

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What I mean is any tool can set up a blog or a site which aggregates all the WRC news and pretend that they're a media outlet.

Martin Holmes of course doesn't do this and writes his own pieces.

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Originally Posted by Simmi

I agree when live there is always the surprise element with onboards. Us fans will know whether anything has happened. I was so annoyed I fired off a letter to Motorsport news.

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I just realised that I actually got the 'Letter of the Week' for my rant about the MotorsTV plans. It's in last week's Motorsport News but it was good to see they gave it priority because it shows they don't think MotorsTV has the right idea either - even if they couldn't say it in their original article.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

What I mean is any tool can set up a blog or a site which aggregates all the WRC news and pretend that they're a media outlet.

Martin Holmes of course doesn't do this and writes his own pieces.

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Too true Daniel although they can be handy sometimes if you don't take them too seriously. There's several sites that basically collate their info from all the rally forums and motorsport sites around Europe. Couple of years ago I "invented" a press release, based on the truth of course, and posted it on a forum, saw it in 2 of these particular sites, simply copied and pasted.
But I guess it's difficult to start a rally news site without connections or media credibility.

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Originally Posted by noel157

But I guess it's difficult to start a rally news site without connections or media credibility.

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Thats the big point. You need some connections with teams and/or drivers to do a good job, and so a good rally site. Everyone's able to do journalism from a desktop, with press releases and news published previously in other medias.

looks like it is on Dave still - it is on Motors TV and looks liek its on Youtbe too

Right then lets see what they have put together for Motors.

First thing is no Paul King.

Bit of an incoherent mess so far. Amateurish voice over. They are going to have to rethink their onboards approach if all the cameras are filming is the back section of the roll cage with a tiny slit view out of the windscreen.

On the upside there is a helicopter in the air. Lets see how much they show the proper footage.