#Journal of Discourses

[valyrfia]

The Sainz Effect on Media: What the Hell is Going On?

Last weekend, Carlos Sainz Jr. won the 2024 Australian GP, and subsequently, almost every single F1 media outlet has seemingly lost their minds. From the aramco power rankings giving him a perfect score (despite Max not getting one for a grand slam last weekend), to motorsport.com acting like a fan account, everyone is tripping over themselves to sing his praises.

F1 is a complex sport, it requires several different aspects to even get a car moving, even more to make it competitive, and even more to enable a championship fight. From driver line-up, to aero, from international politics, to tyre deg. There's no other sport like it. To truly be an expert in Formula 1, you have to have knowledge of how a track works, an understanding of combustion engines and aerodynamics, a grasp of interpersonal and sports psychologies, and a sense of international relations. This is why, even more so than any other sport, good journalism is vital to the sport's ecosystem. No one person can be expected to be an expert in all these areas, you need a team of people who are willing to pool their knowledge and resources before coming up with conclusions to disseminate to their audience.

But media also likes narrative, and media likes an underdog, that is undeniable. And you can create an excellent underdog narrative with Carlos. From losing his seat despite his teammate keeping his, to him having to get his appendix out in Jeddah, the circumstances are there to set up an underdog narrative. But the crux of the issue is this: anyone with any sort of F1 wheel knowledge understands why Charles was kept over Carlos (a better driver even in a car built away from his driving style, who is revered almost as a messiah figure amongst the traditional fans of the team), why Sir Lewis Hamilton is a much more desirable asset to a top team than Carlos (7x world champion, who brings in a massive draw for talent that will far outlast his stint with Ferrari). So what do you do with these characters who don't match the narrative that you want to push?

Simple. You discredit them.

Make no mistake, this is what we're seeing across every major F1 news outlet in the past week. A plain journalistic choice to choose narrative over integrity. There's all sorts of rumours whizzing around as to why that could be: from possible covert payouts from Sainz Sr, to possible misogyny towards Leclerc fans to pundits simply not being bothered to do their research. But the why of it, although important, doesn't matter nearly as much as the fact that however you look at it, these journalists are failing the sport they claim to love. What's even worse, is that it takes a simple glance at numbers to tell us that these media outlets are digging themselves a hole, and are going to have to backtrack or try and excuse their belief in this narrative in the coming months.

Let's take a common line that Sky Sports like to use as an example, "Carlos Sainz is driving for himself. How incredible would it be if Carlos could compete for the championship this year." Max Verstappen will likely win the championship this year, there are no ifs and buts about it. Red Bull are still developmentally leaps ahead of their rivals, and even if Ferrari were to catch them, Max is still at the wheel. And if Ferrari were to catch them, why would Ferrari prioritise Carlos over Charles? The only driver who has been proven to be able to beat Max in his current form at Red Bull on pure pace is Charles Leclerc, which he achieved in Las Vegas last year, and would've gone on to take the win at that same race if not for the safety car. The most likely championship fight this year is Max Verstappen vs. Charles Leclerc, and that's hinging on Ferrari matching Red Bull development. This outcome is blindingly obvious to anyone who knows how this sport works, and yet the current media angle seems to not be to explain how the sport works to the general public, but rather to double down on narratives that are certainly going to be proven incorrect in a manner of months, if not weeks.

Let's look at another common angle the media seem to like to take, "You have to ask, did Ferrari make a mistake swapping out Carlos Sainz for Lewis Hamilton?". Now, if you've been even near a TV showing F1 in the past ten years, it's pretty obvious this answer is of course not. Lewis Hamilton is likely the greatest driver of all time, his name in a lot of cases outshines the sport itself. No other driver on this grid even comes close to his level of acclaim. This reason alone is enough for Ferrari to sign him. Ferrari has not won a championship in close to two decades, the best and brightest engineers want to be working where they know the results are going to come from, and right now, as a stellar engineer, Red Bull or Mercedes or even McLaren would be a choice over Ferrari, which has the added hurdle of moving to Maranello (considering nearly all the other teams are located in the Midlands in the United Kingdom). Acclaim aside, Lewis Hamilton is still a very impressive driver. P3 in the championship last year to a Red Bull 1-2 is not something to be taken lightly, considering his teammate finished in P8 in the same car with only one more retirement. It does make pure racing sense to sign him over Carlos, who finished in P7, especially since Ferrari have an up and coming talent in Ollie Bearman, and what they need is someone with experience to fill that gap until Ollie can make it to Ferrari, and will likely happily step aside when that time comes at some point in the next five years.

However, has there been a single major F1 news outlet calmly and rationally explaining this thought process for those who may enjoy the sport but are not experts? No. Instead, what we get is Sainz sensationalism, and bias so explicit it tips right over into unprofessional. From The Race saying that a Sainz/Leclerc civil war is Leclerc fan hysteria, despite their own outlet running an article just months ago about tensions in Ferrari, to motorsport.com creating a CV for Carlos, and then proceeding to harass fans who ask why they are so keen to ignore facts. Every single F1 outlet seems to have lost their minds.

The sad thing is this will only backfire massively on Carlos himself. Charles will outperform Carlos, every metric from the past year indicates so. Ferrari may be in the running for the WCC by the midpoint of the season, but Carlos's win will fade into distant memory long before we reach Spa, and the average enjoyer will look back on all this crazy media hype and go "hm, well he didn't live up to expectations did he? He was massively overrated." And this too, will be the fault of F1 media.

In conclusion, F1 media sensationalism has failed Charles, Lewis, and Max, it will fail Carlos in the coming months, but most of all, it has failed the fans of the sport, by choosing to focus on far-fetched narratives, rather than deliver proper journalism and build equally compelling narratives out of the data on the table. It highlights a lack of skill and awareness, which threatens the entire ecosystem of the sport that we all know and love.

#f1 essays #charles leclerc #lewis hamilton #f1 journalism discourse #formula 1

[aerelin]

"I think people shouldn't be allowed to depict illegal topics in fanfics or art! It encourages this behavior!"

You know who you sound like?

Tell me I'm wrong. I'll wait forever bc I'm not

#proship #anti mention #anti anti #anti discourse #journal #and thats that

[jacobglaser]

Well this absolutely sucks.

#vice is responsible for some of the funniest articles ive ever read and also some of the best reporting on far right dingdongs #im currently watching some more news' video about the internet killing journalism that literally came out 2 weeks ago #and its obviously only gonna get worse. unfortunately i reckon rolling stone might be the next to go. some of my fave writers went there #after other sites died but the EOC stepping down a few weeks ago doesnt bode well #anyway everyone go subscribe to the worker owned sites like defector discourse blog and 404 media! #because they're needed more than ever! #vice #vice news

[aquickstart]

rip farleigh start you would've loved tumblr dot com

#hes alive and well and he has a blog #two actually maybe three #one of them is a discourse blog. hes a petty hater at heart he is free he is so dgaf about it #one is cottagecore aesthetic with poetry and its untagged. he goes there deep at night to detox #i love him so much hed be my fav mutual <3 #ive said it before but the best platform for saltburn gang rp is tumblr. i wont elaborate #saltburn #farleigh start #mwah #mine #saltburn journaling

[adam-sadmon]

I've found it: Videogame Journalism³

#Videogame #Videogame Journalism #I'm so fucking sick of the games industry #PC Games #Videogame discourse #Indie games #Elden Ring #Castlevania #Bloodborne #In that order #Apparently

[neesieiumz]

skipping over plot for the smut… have we lost our minds… tumblr has a LOT of a p/wo plot and yet you wanna attack someone who writes it WITH plot???

Go find someone else who writes what you want, cause that anon was just MEAN for no reason. Everyone has preferences for how they wanna write, and I’m not gonna bash those who prefer to write smut without plot, but that doesn’t mean you get make anon asks and bash the plot someone wrote in their fanfic.

If you really wanna do that, THEN DONT TELL ANYONE??? Even on Anon!! What happened to keeping fucking secrets in the internet???

#tw discourse #𒀭 〔 neesie’s journal 〕 𒀭

[phoebenavarro]

Actually that article pisses me off so much because it is SUCH bad journalism, clearly intended to elicit an emotional reaction, because the writer has a grudge

There are serious allegations in that article and I wish they had been presented in an even, professional, and journalistic way so I didn’t have to spend my time debunking bullshit and could instead discuss what Rusty Quill has done wrong and how they need to fix it.

#like. as a journalist and someone who TEACHES journalism. this article is so so so bad #so so so soooooo bad #(there’s a reason no other publications wanted to publish it just saying) #discourse #Rusty quill #sorry this is meaner than I usually try to be but Jesus fucking Christ

[xannerz]

armenia's been at a disadvantage b/c it's not 'marketable' enough for the west. it's not a big country. there's no abundance of tech or oil for it to leverage globally. its people already faced genocide before, alongside greeks and assyrians, leaving 1.5m people dead. armenia has 0 incentive to instigate anything. in just 2004, azerbaijan celebrated a man who murdered an armenian in his sleep with an axe in hungary, at NATO's ""Partnership for Peace"" program. idk what more we can say to convince people to believe us, that turkey and azerbaijan are 2 very real threats, whose dictators will continue to perpetuate and act upon armenophobia and pan-turkism. idk what more we can say to stop the hand-wringing and the both-siding and the sniveling "stop the hate :((" rhetoric. it's exhausting. we're tired.

#artsakh #genocide #i'm just venting. #i'm disappointed in journalism and i'm disappointed in politicians and i'm disappointed that the most anyone in power has done #against turkey and azerbaijan #were just mealy-mouthed condemnations #like ok. great. nice. cool. #like just take some time to scroll twt. granted the most bottom of the barrel discourse is there anyway #but you'll see how many actually-not-a-bot turks and azeris are sitting at their keyboards #frothing over killing armenians #oh also fuck russia.

[garadinervi]

Gilles Deleuze, (September 1983), Grandeur de Yasser Arafat [«Revue d'études palestiniennes», No. 10, Winter 1984, pp. 41-43], in Deux régimes de fous. Textes et entretiens 1975-1995, Edited by David Lapoujade, Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 2003, [pp. 221-225], pp. 222-223

[Gilles Deleuze, The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat, Translated by Timothy S. Murphy, «Discourse», Vol. 20, No. 3, 'Gilles Deleuze: Areason to Believe in this World' (Fall 1998), pp. 30-33, Wayne State University Press]

#graphic design #philosophy #book #journal #discourse #gilles deleuze #timothy s. murphy #yasser arafat #david lapoujade #les éditions de minuit #wayne state university press #1980s #1990s #2000s

[xxlovelyfanaticxx]

This is just me bitching but I do not trust the people who believe that if you like Valentino you are a bad person but then love Alastor

Like, you can’t separate reality from fiction but you love the cannibalistic serial killer??

“There is more to Alastors character than Vals!” We have seen him to nothing but manipulate and lie to the main cast. Not to mention his abuse to husk! I assume Valentino acted similarly when he was first manipulating Angle

I literally saw someone say that it was okay to like alastor because those hurt by murders aren’t alive to see it, so it can’t hurt their feelings. :| (ID/ emotion of a disgruntled face /end ID)

#yall fell for alastors manipulation HARD #hazbin hotel #valentino #Alastor #ramble #negativity #lucille’s journal #discourse

[featuringdantefromnocturne]

being creepy about it = having what would be a normal sexuality in 2010 about it btw

it's also really dumb to say this but also post shit like this lol

#stellar blade #discourse #game journalism

[valyrfia]

Lawrence Barretto is either being paid off for these takes or he’s a terrible journalist. At this point there’s simply no other way he churns out these takes. Everyone who watched that race knew that Charles vs. Carlos was not a strategic battle, but the result of the two drivers running completely different races.

It’s embarrassing this incompetent man has a platform, never mind the fact that he’s providing race journalism for F1 the organisation itself.

#lawrence barretto #anti lawrence barretto #charles leclerc #japanese gp 2024 #formula 1 #f1 journalism discourse #f1

[awesamforehead]

Id never thought Punz admitting to being a cuck and a coward would jumpstart the dash again

#discourse #Im sorry for using strong words rn and ill probably regret it later but rn im upset #Maybe I should journal this or something. But I also crave validations from my peers that im not alone in how im perceiving this

[lapsed-lys]

April 5th 2024

Entry #023

Radicalisation

The online world is NOT representative of reality.

I've spent too much time blocking accounts, lately. I want this side account to be specifically for Christian stuff, so I've been exploring different tags... and saw many queerphobic posts in them. Especially against trans people.

It always baffles me that this kind of radical thought is so spread out, I blocked over 30+ accounts within 48h. It baffles me, because everything said in these posts is so... untrue, in real life. There's always bad people, heck queer people don't always get along. But it's the same condition as "normal people": we're just human, and so much nicer and more compassionnate in real life compared to online.

Trans women are the first people to stand up alongside cis women.

Trans men are confident in their gender.

Non-binary people are some of the most understanding and polite people I know.

Intersex people matter and are included in the LGBTQ+ community.

And shout-out to my genderqueer and genderfluid people, who we can learn a lot from to better understand how we relate to gender norms and how to love ourselves.

To anyone reading this who has a negative view of trans people... I understand. It's hard to have an accurate idea of trans people when you don't meet any. We usually refrain from coming-out because of those exact spread-out beliefs. And the online world doesn't make it easy! Queer people who bully and are generally mean definitely play a role in the views I saw. Just like we, trans people, can generalize too due to bad online interactions.

But I urge you to meet people. Meet people at LGBTQ+ conferences, speak to your trans cousins, start a conversation with your partner. Ask them everything you ask of us! What's makes them... them? How come they are heterosexual rather than anything else? How would you proceed if they were LGBTQ+ and hated themselves? How would you comfort the people you care about when the world bans their existence?

These are questions all queer people, especially trans people, had throughout their life. I answered them myself and shared my answers with God. I promise questionning yourself can only be good: what's wrong with wanting a deeper understanding of the self, and wanting to know what kind of person God made you to be?

I wish you well, truly. I love cisgender heretosexual people. You're all wonderful, wonderful friends, wonderful family... We all matter in God's eyes. I love you. Can you love thy neighbour too?

#journal du lys #catholic #christianity #catholicism #lapsed catholic #queer christian #christian #trans christian #transgender #christian tumblr #christianblr #lgbtq christian #christian discourse #christian faith #queer faith #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtq+ #christblr #transexual #trans catholic

[rexscanonwife]

Bro I'm not even a part of this fandom, I have no stake in it, but fucking IMAGINE dedicating a time slot once a day, every day, to listing why a character who is literally a CHILD is a terrible person.

#jane journals #not self insert #i scrolled their blog a bit and i dont usually do this but i HAD to know if it was ironic #it was not #and not only that apparently they engaged in a ton of discourse attacking someone for a trans headcanon #A HEADCANON #disproved or not theres literally nothing wrong with identifying with a character and picturing them as trans #not a single character not a single time #not saying the fandom cause i dont want smoke either but man thats crazy

[sylvies-kablooie]

feel like an academic the way i was about to make a rebuttal paper to a thesis claiming that sylvie had no feelings for loki in s1 but then i remembered i have to do things like attend classes and pay bills so that's gonna be shelved for a while

#all readings of fandom are welcomed here but i do have my own interpretations i believe and that's fine #i just will cite my sources #gestures to the blanket scene. the pruning scene. the one good memory scene. #have y'all ever sat down and read academic discourse? those “in reply to” papers? #i just got exposed to my first one recently and oh boy. the whole body cringe it induced was inescapable. #like imagine a bunch of experts in the field getting so mad about how WRONG you are they have to submit their findings to a journal #and you the poor jstor user just trying to write a paper are subjected to incredibly niche discourse #i understand the importance of calling out ideas you believe do not have weight to them but like consider this: #it probably hurt that guy's feelings :( #i actually was team “guy this paper was saying is wrong” his theory had good evidence #and the writing was so condescending i didn't want to root for them anyway #but regardless. i had a point somewhere in there that has been muddled. #sylki #pro sylki #loki series