In the "Lotus goes bankrupt" thread there is currently a discussion ongoing about how Autosport is never up to date comparing to other motorsports portals.
Examples were given
- Hamilton's late arrival to Brazil and the reasons for that
- updated news on the EU complaint
- The Lotus impoundment story in Spa and the lockout yesterday in Sao Paulo
I would suggest to continue the discussion and add further examples in this thread here.
If a similar thread is already existing or the thread is not allowed, than I'm apologizing for that
As I said over there, I expect news media to report news. I think there are levels of 'news worthiness' depending of which public segment, and subject matter you cover. A magazine as Autosport are rightly or wrongly seen as an authority on covering Autoracing in general and F1 very hardcore. I personally see Autosport as 'The' magazine.
There have been instances of Autosport not covering what a number of other news outlets were in respect to F1 related matters.
* Sauber and Van de Garde earlier this year, very little coverage more was learned and informed in the Forum than when reading the magazine. After the settlement there have been exactly zero coverage, as it show a darker underbelly to the manner in which business is done and not done in F1, I thought it a worthwhile insight article to write. I wrote suggesting this and received a [paraphrase] Van de Garde is a has been, with little talent there is nothing more to the story [/paraphrase] - To me that is not a correct view on it, since the very much covered financial woes facing half the grid is the very reason that a Peter Sauber led team, chose what would in the bushiness world been fraud or embezzlement.
* Lotus being impounded in Spa, first time in how many years this happened to a F1 team? Once again cause and effect, the financial woes of Lotus have led them down a slope where creditors have to resort to the measures, in order to be paid what they are owed. The coverage from a lot of media of the cars being impounded were all over the place, it was discussed at length in the forum. And took about a week before Autosport mentioned it.
* Lotus being locked out in Brazil, second time this happened (or 3rd?), even more of a cause for reporting, since Autosport did report Renault engineers being at work in Enstone. It was reported in various news media, as of yet zero on Autosport.
* Hamilton's late arrival, I did not know of it until being posted in the thread, nothing on Autosport, which it should the reigning WDC arriving late due to a car incident is news. Especially when he story was presented as him having a fever. It is being covered by other news media.
Someone mentioned or suggested that Autosport to an extent have become entrenched to F1, so stories with any kind of negativity towards F1 is not covered timely, is not covered deeply. These mentioned may be the only ones for this year, on top of my head no other come up. Each of them is however poor editorial control of their magazine.