Collaborationism!
Three days ago, the mother of Fabrizio Stabile, the surfer who perished from brain-eating amoebas after surfing the BSR Surf Resort in Waco, Texas, filed a $1,000,000 lawsuit against the tank’s owner alleging the “pathogen soup” there was what killed her son.
It is a heartbreaking story, not fun or anti-depressive, but still news and yet none of the other flagging mainstream surf media outlets deemed it worthy of a nod.
Why?
Oh, the answer is unfortunately simple. Surf media, especially the mainstream varietal such as Stab, Surfline etc., lost its stomach, spine etc. years ago.
Of course, they will each spout out a litany of reasons why a lawsuit revolving around the death of a surfer at a wave tank is not news but, of course, their reasons are gutless, compromised and worst of all, collaborationist.
Are you a fan of Vichy, France?
Is anyone?
All I can think is that Stab, Surfline etc, is looking for cheap, easy kicks from Waco and/or have already received them. Silence is part of the payment. Silence is always part of the payment alongside cocaine (buy here!).
Now, we all know that surf and surf media is goofy and fun but at some point being honest means something.
Right?
Or maybe it doesn’t. Maybe boardshort cataloging is where surf media actually belongs and is it’s heart’s true home.
But really, and I ask seriously, do you care at all or not? Am I just kicking against the goads like a lame, embarrassing fool and should I stop?
Help me!
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Noone, not even BeachGrit, has an article about WSL watering-down the men’s surfing competition by slotting women’s heats in the middle of Mikey Wright throwing massive spray at Bells Beach. I’m not interested in watching women’s surfing, sure I know it’s super-awesome, but I flipped on WSL to watch the men’s competition. Imagine if you went to a MLB game and midway through, you had to watch women’s fast-pitch softball. Liberals and their identity politics makes things suck!
Cant find your story on the story?
$100. Whether it’s prayer, praise or fellatio its nice to know what you’ll drop to your knees for Bem.
Luckily for me you are my Sun.
I was talking to a friend of mine recently about a story in surfing that was largely untouched by the media and she was super surprised, like how is that not headlines.
But I think part of it is, surf magazines never set out to be about news. They were from the start in effect art projects — story-telling, travel, adventure, photos, cool drawings, whathaveyou. The emphasis has always been on the lifestyle and the tall tales — whether true or not.
So it’s not that surprising that hard news is kinda swatted away like a particularly troublesome fly. I guess if everyone is forthright about that — that their publications exist for the party and for the lifestyle and aren’t about news — it isn’t terrible. It’s at least honest.
But it does mean that stories that should see the light of day often don’t — and people whose reputations would be changed if they did see the light of day get a free pass. And I’m not sure that’s an especially healthy thing.
Really well said
If only you knew a surf writer to pen said story Jen…
There’s always cock to suck Bem… Just the paycheques are smaller.
Case in point you and the $100 note at the surf ranch.
Are you saying that Stab and Surfline are getting a form of Kickback, Payolla–in the form of free access to the Waco wave tank– by not printing more about the Amoeba story……….
This guy cared…
https://vignette.wikia.noco…
Young Jay could be funny, but rarely surfed. Didn’t handle his drinks well and would steal change from your car floor which meant he went through your entire car and settled. But funny.
Help is for quitters
Well, to be A. Goggle has a pretty cushy job as a host of No Contest. And by cushy, I mean how the fuck did that voice, matched with that head, get on tv?
I guess Mick likes to hang with Ash cause he belted Chas.
Luckily Davey Scales is always available for some hang time.
The good news is that A. has now found his true calling at Surfers Paradise , wearing a gold spandex bikini, working as transgender meter maid . You can’t miss him ,he is the only one wearing a yellow beanie …….hope he don’t get Stabbed ?https://www.google.de/searc…
Only those who need truth speak of the shadows of a sunny disposition.
Media ≠ journalism
Keep on
Now it’s my turn you ugly leech! It’s actually V.I. Ulyanov. And just kidding about you being ugly. I tried to Google Image but only received pictures of a young Jay Adams.
someone watched the big lebowski….
Curse you Chas, can you not just tow the line and suck a little tiny bit of industry cock? my invite to the Beachgrit Hot-knife Waco collab night surf session just slips further and further from my reach.
That’s it. I’m headed to rehab.
That pool party at Hard Rock in Vegas?
Me too. I’m bored. Is there a trendy one where all the hot fucked up chicks go? Also, will Beachgrit fund?
San Clemente. Spend days at the SHACC and the rest of the time in rehab.
https://www.ocregister.com/…
You don’t comment enough for an invite
Negs to Waco !
Bex to Bondi !
Once I was worse than you Bex…
Unable to walk past a computer without my hands typing in a snide comment or three.
Surely the plumbing in Waco would be good enough to warrant a research trip. Tax deduction and you could label yourself the southern hemisphere foremost expert on the system, available to work with any future projects for an ungodly sum.
I like this angle!!
Whatevs. Summer is nigh. Where the hell is the Beach Grit boardshort ranking?
“Surf media, especially the mainstream varietal such as Stab, Surfline etc., lost its stomach, …years ago.”
Are you calling Ben Marcus a stomach?
He does seem pretty upset with us.
He’s the distal end of the same system…
Ask Cyndi Lauper
Money changes everything
She sure knows her stuff
And has fun!