October
FebruaryAsleep at the wheel
I think our current racing journalists should be embarrassed by events of the last few years whereby a number of racing people have been found to be profoundly cheating. Good journalists would be breaking these stories instead of being passengers.
Our more public journalists have been simply backslappers of high-profile industry participants. Few have done anything to expose those who look to cheat the rest of us.
Those who have cheated and “done their time” are welcomed back like long-lost buddies.
If someone cheats, it is a window into their make-up. To expect that a small penalty is going to change their ethics is misguided.
If you cheat, you should be barred for life. We don’t want them back.
The higher role of journalism is to act on behalf of the public to bring people to account and I think ours are journalists in name only.
Ballarat (Vic)