What’s next, fining the media?
I can’t imagine a scenario – and I’m sure NASCAR feels this way, too – where NASCAR would feel like it would be a good idea to fine the media. They would lose all credibility for that. Drivers are agents for the sport. They are representatives. The media is the watchdog of the sport. They are there to report the facts and expose all information, positive or negative. They are not agents of the sport. They are not representatives of the sport. They are representatives of their news outlets. Drivers are paid to drive and to be ambassadors of the sport. Journalists are paid to report – regardless of whether or not NASCAR likes what they are reporting. That’s what helps NASCAR stay on the up and up. A prime example of this would be the fact that the drivers’ identities were leaked. Let’s say, hypothetically, NASCAR was able to keep the identities private. Wouldn’t that mean NASCAR can fine whomever they want, whatever amount they want, for whatever they feel is disparaging? At the end of t
