#katewagner — Public Fediverse posts
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@jollysea "To be a have-not and be talked to by the haves has an air of the farcical to it." Powerful stuff.
That's a fascinating article and it's clear why we're not supposed to read it!
"What I received wasn't a crash course in Formula 1—in fact, Formula 1 only became more mystifying to me—but journalism, as viewed by the other side."
#F1 #f1insights #cycling #BikeTooter #journalism #InternetArchive #Socialism #The1PercentClub #LewisHamilton #KateWagner #Bicycling #CyclingNews #derailleurs -
The Road & Track Formula One Scandal Makes No Sense
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/road-and-track-scandal
Daniel Pund probably just didn't want to get disinvited from hobnobbing with billionaires.
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A few days ago, an article about Formula 1 by cycling journalist Kate Wagner was published on Road & Track's website. Its focus was the power dynamics of F1, and the enormous amount of money flowing at races, and it was a phenomenal bit of writing. Hours later, it was scrubbed without trace from the website, though the archived version remains. It's linked in this story from Defector, where journalist Patrick Redford tries to figure out exactly what went down.
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Behind F1's velvet curtain, and Road & Track's delete button.
https://www.brilliantcrank.com/they-sent-a-socialist-to-a-capitalist-party/
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🔥 New read alert! Kate Wagner (from McMansion Hell) shares her eye-opening experience at an F1 race amidst opulence, glamour, and wealth. A firsthand account you won't want to miss! Read it here: https://t.co/0RyiclLcqB #F1 #KateWagner #McMansionHell
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The author [#KateWagner] criticized the general state of #FormulaOne, arguing that it has grown boring amid the dominance of Red Bull Racing star Max Verstappen. Wagner also mocked her hosts at #INEOS, describing its invitation to her as a bid to gain positive #publicity & #whitewash the company’s image. “The #petrochemical companies, deeply #powerful institutions, need #journalists to write about all the things they attach themselves to that are not being a petrochemical company,”she wrote.
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…It’s possible that #KateWagner’s piece ruffled more feathers in the #AutomotiveIndustry than the typical Road & Track story. …Wagner’s is the kind of grand, impolite story that is increasingly rare in the struggling #magazine industry, where surviving outlets depend on not offending the #advertisers or #celebrities they feature.
#F1 #money #power #censorship
https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/ -
It’s almost unheard of for a news outlet to retract an article w/o explanation, especially a story of this size whose accuracy has not been publicly challenged. Neither #KateWagner nor #RoadAndTrack responded to requests for comment.
A person familiar w/editorial deliberations at Road & Track said the story, which had been in the works for months, was pulled after its #publication at the order of Editor in Chief #DanielPund on the grounds that it didn’t fit w/the site’s editorial goals. -
“People clinked glasses of free champagne in outfits worth more than the market price of all the organs in my body,” she #KateWagner.
Anyone who wants to read it, though, won’t be reading it on #RoadAndTrack’s website. Roughly an hour after it was published, “Behind #F1’s Velvet Curtain” vanished w/o an explanation.
In its absence, admirers have resorted to sharing an archived version that seems to have gone viral in #media circles — many noting… that it had been “mysteriously removed.” -
Her resulting 5k-word story has drawn praise since it was published Fri, largely bc of the unlikely pairing of writer & subject. “Even better than what you’re imagining,” the conservative website the Bulwark gushed. Fmr CNN host Brian Stelter heralded it as “a joy to read.” While #KateWagner wrote appreciatively about the sport’s aesthetics & superstar driver Lewis Hamilton’s “aura,” she also dissected the #FormulaOne crowd of “tech bros” & “Ozempic-riddled influencers” that surrounds the sport.
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A #socialist writer skewered the #FormulaOne scene. Then her article vanished.
Writer #KateWagner may have seemed like an odd choice to cover the luxury world of FormulaOne. …FormulaOne races…have become pit stops on the jet-set circuit, where the cheapest general-admission tickets start around $500. Still, #RoadAndTrack mag commissioned Wagner to cover a FormulaOne race in Austin last fall, sending her on a trip funded by British petrochemicals co INEOS.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/05/formula-one-road-track-kate-wagner/ -
@codinghorror always happy to boost #KateWagner.
And thank goodness for the #InternetArchive!
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“More than half a century of urban planning prioritizing sprawl has gotten us to where we are now: choked by endless freeways, benumbed by carbon-copy strip malls, secluded in catchpenny houses with no sense of human scale.”
#KateWagner critiques the USian commitment to “endless consumption” through the lens of the prolific McMansion.
