racing media

On March 9, Thoroughbred Daily News published a letter to the editor that lambasted the Thoroughbred industry's media as biased while hiding his or her identity under the cloak of anonymity. To which I answer without anonymity, nonsense. I don't really know the motivation of this anonymous toxic waste, although it fits into the pattern of blaming the media for just about everything that goes wrong in an industry or a society, whether characterized as "fake news" or not. The anonymous writer must have some beef with the industry and...

Editor's Note: the author of this letter is known to the publishers of the TDN, but has asked to remain anonymous.  At this point, we have to be skeptical of any news story about the horse business. Most journalists have an agenda, and there are a lot of angry, envious people ready to feed publications what they want to hear. There are also a lot of readers eager to consume such negative stories. It's a perfect storm of bogusness, with dishonesty at each stage of the pipeline, from the sources...