Media Thread - 2021/22

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blue moony said:
See our good friend and pyschopath Rob Harris was escorted and thrown out of the new LIV golf series press conference for consistently asking questions about sportswashing .
He ended up shouting and got thrown out

He needs sectioning this twerp or worse
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Another good friend Mr Roan of the impartial BBC joins in on the act:

 
domalino said:
I find it fascinating that this section of the media seemingly want to make working for or with Saudi Arabia equatable to collaborating with Aparteid South Africa, not because I agree with their policies or laws, but because Saudi Arabia are so clearly peas in a pod with all the other gulf states and an increasing number of Islamic African countries.

I think it's easy to try and make one state a pariah, South Africa was basically the only country doing aparteid and it's a realtively minor player globally. Trying to make Saudi a pariah because of their islamist governance suddenly brings in 20-30 other countries who must be excluded, and trying to do it based on their extrajudicial killings/war means going after China, Russia, the USA.

I don't see how they can succeed.

And while this usually brings about cries of whataboutism, why wasn't Rob Harris at the Saudi International in Februrary asking these questions to all the players on the European Tour. Why hasn't he done it at any of the races to Dubai?
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Agreed. It is just selective and a very lazy narrative. Rob Harris could also have attended the Kenya Savannah Classic last March. Another Euro Tour event being held in a country which has been accused by human rights groups of murdering and torturing its political opponents. What I can't understand is why people like Harris only seem to have a problem with certain Arab states. Is he a moron who can't use Google or does he have another motive?
Are all the people at the top of the European Golf Tour involved in some giant "sportswashing exercise" or are they just trying to turn a profit. Why does no one make a fuss about Dubai and its tourist industry. I think there is no such thing as "sportswashing." It is a fabricated concept. Lots of countries are trying to diversify their economies away from fossil fuels and tourism, leisure, and sport is a huge commercial opportunity. If they promote their country as a leisure destination at the same time then so what. Does anyone think that Sheikh Mansour sat in a room with Government officials and said: "We must do something to cover up the dreadful publicity about our migrant workers. Let's buy football clubs across the world including some in places with worse human rights records like China and Uruguay." It is total bollocks.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Another good friend Mr Roan of the impartial BBC joins in on the act:

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Dan Roan will be the first 'sportswriter' in the queue for the flights to Qatar when the World Cup starts that's for sure. If any of them were that serious about sports washing they would boycott the the tournament. But how many of them actually will? They will be filling their hypocritical boots with the lavish 'hospitality' and freebies that will get thrown at them. They will then arrive back in England and immediately revert to type. Spineless, hypocritical, cockroaches. All of them.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Agreed. It is just selective and a very lazy narrative. Rob Harris could also have attended the Kenya Savannah Classic last March. Another Euro Tour event being held in a country which has been accused by human rights groups of murdering and torturing its political opponents. What I can't understand is why people like Harris only seem to have a problem with certain Arab states. Is he a moron who can't use Google or does he have another motive?
Are all the people at the top of the European Golf Tour involved in some giant "sportswashing exercise" or are they just trying to turn a profit. Why does no one make a fuss about Dubai and its tourist industry. I think there is no such thing as "sportswashing." It is a fabricated concept. Lots of countries are trying to diversify their economies away from fossil fuels and tourism, leisure, and sport is a huge commercial opportunity. If they promote their country as a leisure destination at the same time then so what. Does anyone think that Sheikh Mansour sat in a room with Government officials and said: "We must do something to cover up the dreadful publicity about our migrant workers. Let's buy football clubs across the world including some in places with worse human rights records like China and Uruguay." It is total bollocks.
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Good post. Sums the situation up nicely.
 
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