Daily News Does It Again

[Cannon Shell]

The horse is a NY horse owned by Big NY owners trained by a Big time NY trainer who ran her best races in NY and is based in NY. How can they not give it a lot of press. Not to mention the fact that the trainer who won the damn race was the trainer of the most famous broke down horse in recent memory? I hate the picture but it is a big story and they are in business to sell papers.
One of the pitfalls of the exposure that the industry craves is negative images that sometimes occur. We have to understand that the bigger the industry gets in the publics eyes, especially with the backing of ESPN, the more the focus will fall on the negative. It is not a horseracing problem, it is a society problem.

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

The horse is a NY horse owned by Big NY owners trained by a Big time NY trainer who ran her best races in NY and is based in NY. How can they not give it a lot of press. Not to mention the fact that the trainer who won the damn race was the trainer of the most famous broke down horse in recent memory? I hate the picture but it is a big story and they are in business to sell papers.

I take no issue with the written article what so ever...the photo is just another story. A symptom of a very sad and sick society that hungers to see this sort of gruesomness up close and in color. I understand it, but I don't have to like it.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

I take no issue with the written article what so ever...the photo is just another story. A symptom of a very sad and sick society that hungers to see this sort of gruesomness up close and in color. I understand it, but I don't have to like it.

I hate it too.

[Byebyemermaid]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

I take no issue with the written article what so ever...the photo is just another story. A symptom of a very sad and sick society that hungers to see this sort of gruesomness up close and in color. I understand it, but I don't have to like it.

100% in agreement.The unfortunate thing is that society is that way now.I remember years ago they came out with this video "Faces of Death' which i'm glad to say i never viewed.It showed the killing of a monkey by bashing it's head which i was told,and other gruesome things i'm sure.Video stores couldn't keep it on there shelves to the point that the company that produced it came out with more of them.When the video on Al-Jazzeera came out with the first beheading i was told that people waited for hours to dowload it and view it.We have become so insensitive as a society

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by Byebyemermaid

100% in agreement.The unfortunate thing is that society is that way now.I remember years ago they came out with this video "Faces of Death' which i'm glad to say i never viewed.It showed the killing of a monkey by bashing it's head which i was told,and other gruesome things i'm sure.Video stores couldn't keep it on there shelves to the point that the company that produced it came out with more of them.When the video on Al-Jazzeera came out with the first beheading i was told that people waited for hours to dowload it and view it.We have become so insensitive as a society

Mark,
Your last sentence says it all.
Just hold hope that those of us that remain "sensitive" are not viewed as "outside" of that society, but continue to bring awareness of the outrageousness of that "mentality", whether it be a beautiful race horse, or a "collaterally" (innocently killed child in Iraq, or a starving one in Darfur.
Blood thirst and "rubber necking" at car crashes on the side of the highway brings curiosity at the horror that others endure. Thank goodness it wasn't me mentality. It sells.
As a "society", the Romans remain our model. Applaud the gore of the gladiators as they murder each other running around the ring spewing blood.
Sad that we've come to that. Very sad.
DTS

[ateamstupid]

I'm a fan of the Daily News, but have to agree that printing that picture was in bad taste. Very bad taste.

[sumitas]

I believe that the big story yesterday was that breakdown. And it symbolizes all the breakdowns on dirt. I have no problem with that picture. Unfortunately it did happen and will continue to happen on the dirt.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by sumitas

... Unfortunately it did happen and will continue to happen on the dirt.

oh come on--it's an issue with the sport itself. it's always going to happen as long as there is racing, whatever surface it's on. remember horatio nelson earlier this year?

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Seriously, please do not use this as a poly advertisement. The big story yesterday was the fantastic racing. The sad story from yesterday was this. It's a newspaper, and they chose to focus on the bad, like most news organizations. Watch the nightly news, ever see any positive stories? They are few and far between. You are sicker than first thought if you have no problem with that picture. Think about the connections. Do you think they like the last picture of the filly that they bred, and loved to be of her falling with her leg snapped. Come on, have some compassion.

DaHoss,
I'll stand up for Sumitas in that he looks for safer racing for all the horses.
I do as well.
At times, the topic gets twisted to his deep concern.
Not that that's really about the Daily Rag selling newspapers...cause it's not.
In my humble view, Sumitas is very compassionate.
We just need to discuss this in the poly room rather than here.
OK?
DTS