Magneto n Xavier are genuinely one of the only people that don’t even need a recast, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are still perfect for the roles in age
🧵 Worth keeping in mind that a good chunk of the content you digest/share/aggregate is because F1 has press that is without censorship & intimidation.
If they didn’t, many of the media sessions would look like the ones from the private Barcelona shakedown where drivers are asked only straightforward questions that hardly reveal anything interesting. For example, we didn’t find out how the drivers truly felt about the new cars until media was allowed back for Bahrain testing.
The role of a reporter is not to be a fan. They can & should give individuals their deserved praise in moments of greatness but they should ask tough, critical questions while maintaining professionalism in other moments too.
It’s also not clickbait if it’s an article you don’t like or is a column, which isn’t a news article at all but a designed opinion piece.
People can also be nuanced & agree or disagree with one action & then feel differently about something separate. This is not a gotcha. Just because I say I like pizza doesn’t mean I hate pasta.
The subject being interviewed also has the right to communicate or do as they please if they feel a reporter is out of line. You can make your own opinion if you feel today’s actions to expel the journalist were justified & no one can take that from you. I personally think it wasn’t justified & there were probably better ways to go about it without making it into what it currently is but that’s just my opinion & admittedly, a biased one at that.
I just wanted to help clear up the role of what a journalist does because I feel like many don’t understand how that works.
I’ll go back into my box of niche stats now.
it's not a privilege, it's their job. the respect always needs to go both ways, the drivers are not gods that have to be worshipped. especially considering it wasn't a rude question at all, and it's been four months!
I understand the journalist is a bit of a knob but drivers/sportspeople should never have authority to do this. In name, they don’t have the authority to do this so how this is allowed is beyond me.
I’ve seen this in other sports too and I’m not sure why it’s ever allowed and/or who is giving this the green light.
Ultimately, everyone has a job to do. You don’t see the average working man or woman turning people away from work just because they don’t get along.
It’s happened to all of us, every single one of us at some point.
The problem is, I believe athletes forget that what doesn’t seem like a day job for them, is for the common person. Things like this do irreversible reputational damage to careers and they don’t even know it.