A few quick thoughts, if I may.
When you make the conscious decision to participate in a public activity you are also tacitly "agreeing" to give up a portion of your privacy. From the day you strap on a helmet -- or the day you step in front of the camera for your first close-up -- you are acknowledging that many aspects of your life will no longer be your own.
While it's true that racers rarely receive the scrutiny of a Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears or that idiot Joaquin Phoenix, racers are, nevertheless, public figures, and everything they say and do becomes fodder for the media. We may not yet have paparazzi chasing racers down the street to shoot photos of them holding their babies as they scarf down lunch, but for all we know that day could come. At some point, for but one example, someone in drag racing's going to start asking what Mike Dunn does during the week, and what does his family look like, and is his relationship with his wife on shaky ground, or is he about to be fired for something he said on-air. It's just the nature of the beast.
People may be overly fascinated with the particulars of someone else's private life, but that's just how things are. If you pay attention to news coverage and TV ratings and the like you'll quickly realize that hard news no longer leads, but the latest scandal does open the broadcast. Lohan getting out of rehab after 23 days made headlines in LA, not the nation's economy, not the war in Afghanistan, not the oil leak in the Gulf.
So, people here wondering about Tommy and Melanie is nothing more than a reflection of mainstream life.
Yeah, it may very well BE no one's business, but that doesn't mean people aren't going to be curious anyway.
In my opinion there's nothing inherently "wrong" about this thread.
It's like your television, ya know. Don't like that show, or think it's inappropriate for your children? Hit the clicker or turn it off.
Same thing here. Disapprove of this thread?
Then don't read it.
Jon Asher
Senior Editor
CompetitionPlus.com
When you make the conscious decision to participate in a public activity you are also tacitly "agreeing" to give up a portion of your privacy. From the day you strap on a helmet -- or the day you step in front of the camera for your first close-up -- you are acknowledging that many aspects of your life will no longer be your own.
While it's true that racers rarely receive the scrutiny of a Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears or that idiot Joaquin Phoenix, racers are, nevertheless, public figures, and everything they say and do becomes fodder for the media. We may not yet have paparazzi chasing racers down the street to shoot photos of them holding their babies as they scarf down lunch, but for all we know that day could come. At some point, for but one example, someone in drag racing's going to start asking what Mike Dunn does during the week, and what does his family look like, and is his relationship with his wife on shaky ground, or is he about to be fired for something he said on-air. It's just the nature of the beast.
People may be overly fascinated with the particulars of someone else's private life, but that's just how things are. If you pay attention to news coverage and TV ratings and the like you'll quickly realize that hard news no longer leads, but the latest scandal does open the broadcast. Lohan getting out of rehab after 23 days made headlines in LA, not the nation's economy, not the war in Afghanistan, not the oil leak in the Gulf.
So, people here wondering about Tommy and Melanie is nothing more than a reflection of mainstream life.
Yeah, it may very well BE no one's business, but that doesn't mean people aren't going to be curious anyway.
In my opinion there's nothing inherently "wrong" about this thread.
It's like your television, ya know. Don't like that show, or think it's inappropriate for your children? Hit the clicker or turn it off.
Same thing here. Disapprove of this thread?
Then don't read it.
Jon Asher
Senior Editor
CompetitionPlus.com
