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Automotive News shows its bias in 2020 presidential coverage
The auto industry’s leading trade journal has put its thumb on the scales in reporting about the 2020 presidential race. Keith Laing’s (2020) comparison of Donald Trump and Joe Biden uses biased language and a […]
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Ralph Nader on Car and Driver magazine vilifying him
“Some of the commentary (in the 1960s and early ’70s) was so absurd as to invite permanent satire. Whoever writes the history of this will, I’m sure, be able to comment on how the automotive […]
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Autoweek: Can Crain-owned buff magazine survive in digital era?
A quarter century ago I subscribed to this magazine in response to one of those promos that offered a really low introductory rate. I liked the auto history pieces — this was before the Internet […]
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Mike Spinelli: Car buff readers can be sanctimonious nitpickers
“You know how it is when you are 12 years old and your parents do something that embarrasses you and you unload on them? Some people have never really left that (stage). I think that […]
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Peter DeLorenzo: Auto journalism is a pay-to-play-for-access game
“I believe that the glaring sameness of the so-called ‘enthusiast’ car mags is still there and it’s still highly annoying. And there’s no denying that the days for the hard-copy print mags are severely numbered, and when […]
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The crucial difference between access and accountability journalism
“These are two different views of journalism’s very purpose, forever in competition for status, resources, and power. These approaches require different skills, different practices, and different sources, and produce radically different representations of reality. Access […]
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Should auto history websites only say nice things?
(UPDATED FROM 7/31/2020) A few years ago Curbside Classic commentator Team Obsolete complained that stories written by Paul Niedermeyer “drift over like a cold dark cloud, displacing people’s sunny enthusiasm and dumps freezing rain and […]