While the FIA argued that the reason for the findings not being made public was because nothing could be proven, the dramatic drop-off in performance at the end of 2019, which continued throughout most of 2020, told everyone all they needed to know.Ĭheck out our Thursday gallery from Monza, here. Of course, the findings of the infamous fuel flow limit investigation in 2019 were never made public, the FIA controversially reaching a 'secret' agreement with the Italian manufacturer, a move that caused uproar among rival teams. "But I think it is important to underline that what happened then is no different from what is happening now, and has always happened in Formula 1."
"Getting to the kind of tone used in 2019 is still wrong," he admitted. "Perhaps then we were too exposed to the media and suffered an attack from our competitors. "Why are there differences in attitude?" he asked. And all of this is no different from what happened in 2019. "The FIA measures (technical directives) were necessary because there were those who had a different interpretation to the principles of the regulation. "We had some doubts and we discussed them with Red Bull - I personally spoke to Christian Horner - but we did not submit any clarification questions to the FIA."Ĭomparing the current situation with that of his own team in 2019, he said, according to. "Like all teams and all manufacturers, we try to understand what our rivals are doing, we analyse the images and look at the GPS data," said Binotto of the investigation into Mercedes. "They were on another planet," admits Ferrari pair.Hamilton refuses to take the Alonso bait.Seidl denies morale at McLaren has been compromised.Horner thanks Wolff for technical directive.Belgian Grand Prix in Words, Stats and Pictures.Audi chairman explains thinking behind separate programme for Porsche.Piastri conspiracy claims "sad and annoying" says Alonso.I think the comparison's pretty apt - not, in the end, the crime of the century - but it's worth keeping in mind that as this hostile Wall Street Journal timeline points out, Whitewater "fade from the campaign" soon after Gerth's March 8, 1992, and surfaced as a huge issue much later and in the White House. So were the "plants." Interest in Obama's Chicago real estate dealings and political ties has been high in the Chicago press, but doesn't have the same array of Beltway forces driving it.ĪLSO: See Glenn Thrush's different take, which compares Rezko to Whitewater, and notes that there was a lot of scrutiny of the latter. On the other, every story about Hillary - say, the Clinton library - is interesting as a campaign story, a story about a past president, a story about history, and an episode in running conflicts between the Clintons and the press that date back 15 years. On one hand, this the Clintons have access to and relationships with senior editors, producers, and hosts. I think there are many more complicated dynamics at work that stem from the long history between the press and the Clintons. At the same time, I don't really buy that many in the press are rooting for Obama in a way that directly affects coverage. With Obama, everything's a discovery, which cuts in the opposite direction when it comes to campaign coverage. On his broader point though, there is some truth to the fact the Clinton campaign often talks reporters out of stories by pointing out that they're "old news," because once, at some point in her long record, everything's been written. With apologies to Bill Burton, it's absurd to claim narrowly that "No candidate in this race has undergone more investigations and examinations than Barack Obama has." Did I miss the part where three of of the most aggressive American investigaive reporters, Jeff Gerth, Don Van Natta and Carl Bernstein, devoted years to detailed examination of Obama's life, as they did to Hillary's?
Howard Kurtz's story today on Clintonite complaints of media bias is worth a read, though I'm not sure I agree with all that's said in it, by either side, or that I really have a firm grip on the media groupthink.Ī couple of points, though, sure to irritate everyone involved:
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