Sports Magazines and the time delay
Jun. 22nd, 2005 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beige_alertI’ve been reading F1 Racing magazine, and as I wrote on my other site, the time lag between the writers writing and the printed magazine showing up on store shelves is substantial, and make the “current events” coverage rather non-current. It’s got to be hard to write under those circumstances. Does anyone else read sports magazines? Are they filled with speculation about what might happen in a game that, by the time you get the magazine, happened a month ago?
I did learn something new from this issue. The big sponsor of McLaren Mercedes is West. I had no idea what West made or did, and “west” isn’t the kind of name that Googles easily, so I never felt motivated to try to find out. I thought it sounded like a telecommunications company. It turns out to be a tobacco company. I had no idea. Here I thought McLaren was one of the very few without a cigarette company logo on everything, and it turns out they were covered with such all along and I just didn’t know.
I did learn something new from this issue. The big sponsor of McLaren Mercedes is West. I had no idea what West made or did, and “west” isn’t the kind of name that Googles easily, so I never felt motivated to try to find out. I thought it sounded like a telecommunications company. It turns out to be a tobacco company. I had no idea. Here I thought McLaren was one of the very few without a cigarette company logo on everything, and it turns out they were covered with such all along and I just didn’t know.
