TO withdrawal and useless Y&Y coverage

Surely the biggest news in British sailing in the last month has been the withdrawal of Team Origin from AC34. Even if you don't care about the AC it's highly relevant to Team GBR's prospects in Weymouth 2012. And what do we get in Y&Y? A small news piece with zero analysis and the usual blather from Fisher, repeating ad-nauseam that every single thing BMWO does is wonderful, with no mention of Team Origin at all.

And this from what purports to be the journal of record of the British racing scene. Pitiful.

Originally posted by blueboy Surely the biggest news in British sailing in the last month has been the withdrawal of Team Origin from AC34. Even if you don't care about the AC it's highly relevant to Team GBR's prospects in Weymouth 2012. And what do we get in Y&Y? A small news piece with zero analysis and the usual blather from Fisher, repeating ad-nauseam that every single thing BMWO does is wonderful, with no mention of Team Origin at all.

Quite simply; the story broke as we were printing the magazine, most of the pages were already at the printers, hence there was nothing in the main magazine, the news pages were finished but pulled them back to  put a brief story on last minute - perhaps we should have flagged it as such, but it was either that or ignore it until the following issue... unfortunately deadlines don't always fall in the most convenient place!

I hope it means that a magazine, while bringing news later than newspapers, can do so in more depth and insight, and possibly less editorial bias, if we are lucky.

The Y&Y website ran the press release which Team Origin sent out.

Is there really much more to say other than "we're not competing"? We can all see why. A great shame of course. Bring back the 12 metres! Or the Js!

Originally posted by MerlinMags The Y&Y website ran the press release which Team Origin sent out.

Reprinting press releases isn't journalism. Nor do I need Y&Y to run press releases. I can find them for myself and will invariably have seen any I'm interested in long before Y&Y appears. What I want is analysis and information I cannot get elsewhere.

Is there really much more to say other than "we're not competing"? We can all see why.

TDS has interviews with Mills and Simmer which do into a great more detail on the decision. Other sites and blogs have other interviews with sailors. SAAC has run into thousands of words on the subject. So yes there is a great deal more to say than "we're not competing" and if you are confident you understand the reasons leading to the decision, good for you but having followed the story in some depth, I don't feel certain at all.