NYT gives credit to NY Velocity for doping coverage

[fiamme red]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/business/media/chasing-lance-armstrongs-misdeeds-from-the-sidelines.html

The Web is full of outliers who are constantly posting about vast conspiracies, advanced by powerful interests and enabled by the mainstream media. The truth, they say, is out there in plain sight.

Every once in a while, the outliers are right. This is a story of how a group of people at the low end of bicycle racing used the Web and social media to take back custody of their sport from powerful dopers and liars and their enablers in the media...

[Louis]

enablers in the media

Maybe the NYT should have put Judith Miller on the case...

[merlincustom1]

Maybe the NYT should have put Judith Miller on the case...

They effectively did.

[RonW87]

You could say the same thing about any number of websites. Stolen Underground comes to mind. What struck me in reading the USADA Reasoned Decisions was how much they used that had already been public, whether it was the 1999 urine samples, the Betsy Andreu testimony, etc. the truth was out there. I won't mention the L'Equipe story, which had it exactly right years ago, because, you know, it was in French and, you know, from France...

There's a quote that it's difficult to explain something to someone if their livelihood depends on them not understanding it.

R.