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Tweet Not, Lest You Be ReTweeted! Kyle Busch vs. ESPN | | By Carol Einarsson | 03/01/2010 | Category: Various Other Articles | | | KyleBusch Surprise, surprise. ESPN showed me walking away givin the impression I declined interview. Negative, never even asked me. Thx camera man.
That's what Kyle Busch tweeted after the Nationwide race on Saturday night. Kyle Busch has almost 13,000 followers, any number of which has the potential to retweet what he said, thus memorializing it for all to see and making it irretrievable by Shrub himself.
Now let's think a moment about the assertion he's making. He says he was never asked for an interview, and that the images we saw on TV were those provided by a cameraman who was following him. For this to be, it means that ESPN has video cameramen not just assigned to the pit reporters, but also wandering around on their own in order to get shots like that.
ESPN’s official answer is, “It’s never our intention to portray anyone in a negative light.”
So how does this happen? Kyle Busch claims he never denied an interview, implying that he would have graciously accepted if he’d only just been ASKED. Never mind that every bit of his history with the media says otherwise. Kyle Busch, battling for the win, and his own error puts him in the wall and lands him in 16th for the day. Tell me if that scenario has ever before, even once, resulted in a post-race interview with the media.
ESPN acknowledges that they never intended to interview him. So how does that video of him walking away end up on TV that way?
Where was the cameraman? Confirmed is that he wasn’t wandering around looking for controversial footage. Rather, he was with his reporter, Jerry Punch, set to interview the 2nd-5th place finishers who all park together after the race.
That’s when it happened. Kyle Busch, sixteenth place finisher pulled up and parked with the second, third, fourth, and fifth place finishers. He then walked from there back to the garage.
Now ask yourself… why would a guy who didn’t want to be interviewed, pull up to where the top five finishers parked to be interviewed, only to then walk back to his garage?
And then why would that guy be surprised that there was a camera in the area of where the top five finishers were being interviewed?
And if you’re the cameraman, and the 16th place finisher pulls up to where the top five are, and you don’t know what might happen next (Is he blaming one of them? Is there going to be a spat here that I should capture?), would you roll tape?
Kyle Busch paints a scenario of a cameraman stalking him for the purpose of making him look like he’s run off from an interview. In fact, Kyle Busch, by way of parking his 16th place car with the top five, invited himself to be photographed. He crashed the party, then walked away, and seems perplexed that anyone filmed him doing so.
ESPN didn’t set him up. ESPN didn’t portray him in any other light than that in which he placed himself… that of a guy that once again choked at the end of the race, and then wanted attention for himself, trying to create controversy that would make him look like a victim of the media.
Here’s a tip, Kyle – If you want to avoid the cameras, don’t park with the top five when you ran into the wall and finished sixteenth. Simple as that.
| | | Comments: | | Was pretty sure I knew what happened, then read the first part of the article and was ashamed that I felt that way, then read the rest of the article and it turns out my initial thoughts were right.
Thanks Kyle. :) |
| | | No reason for ESPN to even show him regardless of where he parked.Unless.... oh no ESPN wouldn't stoop that low ha ha |
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