Views on eventing

[jane_dixie]

Hi guys.. as part of my dissertation I am looking into how eventing comes across in the media, in particular focusing on how stories such as the death of Harry Meade's horse are conveyed, and how this effects the perceptions of the sport.

I have searched high and low for newspaper articles on such topics (both broadsheet and tabloid, but not equestrian specific publications), but can not seem to find anything at all. If anyone knows of any articles which consider eventing (either in a positive or negative light) I would be most grateful if you could please please comment with a link below!

Thanks so much in advance!

 

[sarcasm_queen]

But surely that just means that eventing isn't reported on in the mainstream media, which is a fairly significant fact??
There are plenty of articles in equestrian magazines (have you checked h&h online?), but very little mainstream attention.

 

[shortstuff99]

Does it have to be UK media? I think Germany has quite a few articles on it.

 

[sam_m]

Not sure whether these will help:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=t...57.7621j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 certainly brings up lots of results!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=t...es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=the+telegraph+harry+meade

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=t...=93&ie=UTF-8#q=the+telegraph+william+fox+pitt

So either I've misunderstood what you want or google is playing up as I've managed to find no end of articles (and remember a lot of the ones towards the top of these links being physically in The Telegraph)

 

[Double_choc_lab]

When mainstream rags still refer to Zara Tindalll as a showjumper what hope is there of finding factual articles about eventing. You need specialist press I'm afraid.

 

[jane_dixie]

Thank you so much for your help, will have a look into those, much appreciated x

 

[jane_dixie]

No, just westernised, so will defiantly look into some of the German stuff. Thanks so much x