More smoke from "The Interview!"
The dust has begun to settle around Stab magazine’s stunning admission, yesterday, that it is openly and proudly a shill for the World Surf League. In exchange for receiving schedule releases hours before other surf media and the ability to license footage, the premium subscription surf blog will happily dress propaganda as news and roll it out to its audience all while heavily patrolling the discourse.
Like the China Global Television Network except without delicious noodle dishes or orange chicken!
Well, whether Stab wants to be in the “revealing details” business, or not, some very fine details were revealed in the wake of the Jessi Miley-Dyer interview that got this whole ball rolling. New editor, and onetime beloved BeachGrit contributor Michael Ciaramella, is always one to face the music. A wonderful trait. In explaining to frustrated readers why he let the World Surf League’s Chief of Sport off the hook, Ciaramella shared that he only had fifteen minutes with Miley-Dyer and a PR flak was on the phone too, trying to hurry the conversation along.
What?
The World Surf League requires its Chief of Sport to have a minder and crazy time limit when chatting with already-collaborationist media?
How do you like them apples?
Like North Korea except cheap and pointless!
The lengths to which Santa Monica goes to tamp down honesty is… wild. Are bodies actually buried or something?
Erik Logan’s?
Erik Logan’s “mistake?”
When I first got my start covering professional surfing at its highest level, then called the Association of Surfing Professionals, I acted in much the same way that I do today. Fabulously roguish. Then CEO Brodie Carr decided he’d like to address it, challenged me to an arm wrestle and came into the bar with his hood over his head, shadow boxing.
I fell in love, then and there, and wrote a piece of fawning, so completely un-journalistic that even with Stab embracing its new ringer role, it won’t be able to top.
Those were the days.
But, seriously, what is the World Surf League trying to hide?
A very-near future sale to Bahrain?
We already know, bros.
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Chas’ coverage of the ASP tour was about as good as contest analysis can get.
Then he got married, went all soft serve and quit surfing without the fun quit surfing post.
Stab tried to be rad, banned a Hippy, and fell into the same trap it tried to fight against and here we are, full circle as if bought Surfer and Surfing. How fun those two under the same roof when they died? No wonder Sam and Matt are so disjointed.
Mikey surfs well and is very fun. Peeps should know. Say hi.
They banned you from their forum? Was it swift, or were threats made before hand?
I’ve followed your recommendations and have found Nick’s The New Sarcasm piece. I’ll read the replies later while hopefully watching the contest.
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Getting a bit sensitive don’t ya think Negs.
I say “She’s PHAT” and you remove it. I mean, I get you getting your kicks on route 66 to cancel land on Astro, for whatever horrible take you deem NSFW, but me calling her Pretty Hot And Tempting? WTF?! She’s PHAT……man! What are you, the world’s biggest Vagina Monologue fan?
Maybe, just over certain Heads here being base level cruel and tasteless. You’re just trolling me anyway by even posting that.
Cruel? No.
Tasteless? You ever ate a ribeye? That fat is flavor.
Scotch Filet in nzed.
Ruth’s Chris would recommend a Macallan single malt scotch with that New Zealand ribeye.
Otto talking my language. First, a snobby single malt then a dry cab with a rare/med rare ribeye.
Negatron will have a white wine spritzer with a straw and a bib.
Good thing Negatron’s booster seat has a little seatbelt.
It’s spelt FAT
posted a couple follow-ups to the infamous Catalina Cruise and offered some passageways to points further south…like. like…like Lahaina’s blessed Pioneer Inn (RIP). OR even closer, a chain restaurant started by Joey Cabell. Seems the some Aussies don’t like a steakhouse on the cali coast or a late plug for the former center of whale hunting. Too much fat?
Apparently former surfing chief Fatty Al Hunt’s old nickname (before Fatty Al) was Seacow.
Not dissimilar to Manatee or Dugong.
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P.S.
Does anyone know who ‘Barry’ is, that world-leading surfboard developer/pro surfer Simon Anderson is instructing to ‘F off’ ?
Ahh, such innocent times…
Yeah nothing like a good old fashioned buggering from Pastor Giles after Sunday School. Worlds gone all woke.
bunch of ffags.
Who wears short shorts?
We wear short shorts!
The 80’s were great.
took balls!
Jamal ChasSmithoggi
I don’t see what’s the big deal , surf media in general has been reliant on the surf industry which includes proffesional surfing to exist since day dot , or did you think it was magically paid for by its self , come on grow up man we are not all 10 year olds , Tracks for example was created to promote the film morning of the earth , ps what about all the BL or RIP Curl athlete based articles on the BG mmmm
We’ve done some fun stuff with Billabong and Vissla but otherwise there’s a reason your BG is littered with Kaiser Permanente.
Also on the podcast was Mickey C talking about press passes to the Surf media for the Olympics in Tahiti.
Assuming you and Derek have that sorted already?
Access Journalism! Olympics is easy compared to WSL. It’s actually legitimate, oddly.
What’s Ashton new position?
Reach around recipient
Xox
he’ll be slapping his fat hand ’round
I miss the fun surfboard testing with the anonymous hooded ripper!
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The next generation of surfers will will see the initials “MR” and now think Makua…That’s a shit logo Makua as was the “FW” logo Bobby Was pimping his last post heat interview with D Klein.
Total dog shit I agree. Ya mean T Klein?
Jesus… Its like part Hawaiian, part reggae, part smash mouth, part DJ Khalid, part LB dub all stars but 100% terrible.
for me it’s not the “what?” they’re trying to hide, but rather the “why?”
seems rather self-absorbed and flamingly self-unaware
Im calling it now. The Saudis grab it for $75-90m within two years.
I’ll see you a Bahrain, this year. Undisclosed amount but debt plus 20 mil.
I usually have a lay over in abu dhabi on my way to the evil pop out factory in thailand, i’ll extend my layover and we’ll score some waves next summer.
Hahahahahar, suck it, Stab!
Any insights what they’d do with it?