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**posimoka** · 10-18-2008, 06:09 PM

Good points both

I'm very fortunate in that I get to talk to Riccardo Patrese often for his website, and he answers site visitors questions. I make every effort to ensure that I reproduce his answers word for word, but having said that, given his first language is not English I do sometimes (not often) need to re-phrase an answer to reflect his meaning accurately. Like Dave I also respect 'off the record' comments because if I did not there would be no trust between us.

I suspect drivers all know particular journalists that they trust implicitly, and others that they are more circumspect around. One problem with the Hamilton "phenomenon" is that F1 is news, and as such it attracts journalists who do not regularly cover the sport, and are looking for an "angle" to slant their article in a particular way. Adding to that are the thousands of websites all looking to get hits, and that influences the way stories are reported and re-hashed.

10-18-2008, 06:09 PM	#33
posimoka Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 423 Senior Member	Good points both I'm very fortunate in that I get to talk to Riccardo Patrese often for his website, and he answers site visitors questions. I make every effort to ensure that I reproduce his answers word for word, but having said that, given his first language is not English I do sometimes (not often) need to re-phrase an answer to reflect his meaning accurately. Like Dave I also respect 'off the record' comments because if I did not there would be no trust between us. I suspect drivers all know particular journalists that they trust implicitly, and others that they are more circumspect around. One problem with the Hamilton "phenomenon" is that F1 is news, and as such it attracts journalists who do not regularly cover the sport, and are looking for an "angle" to slant their article in a particular way. Adding to that are the thousands of websites all looking to get hits, and that influences the way stories are reported and re-hashed.
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