SovSport writer published the interview conducted by Sport-Express
Here is Slava Malamud's comment left in my blog:
The interview was conducted by me, with the SovSport stringer standing idly by with a turned-on recorder. Several questions and answers are mangled beyond recognition. Several phrases are made up entirely. Sadly, such is the style of work of several non-professionals enlisted by SS. Not the first time, not the last.
The tape with the original is available to anyone who is interested.
- Slava Malamud
That's why I have a love/hate relationship with Russian media. Unbelievable!!!!!!!!
Update (see comments section):
Listen, getting into a spat is the last thing I want here. Readers, whoever they may be, are entitled to their opinions regarding the quality of my writing and my person.
What did rub me the wrong way was seeing my interview, with reworded questions and answers, published under a different name. This was the work I did, the work with which I make my living. I think it is understandable how this can cause a person to get a little upset.
I thought the people who translated this deserved to know. That's it.
- Slava Malamud
January 15, 2009 9:37 PM
On SS and SE relationship and the charter flight from Quebec to Moscow where only SovSport journalists were allowed:
Quote from Slava:
You dramatize a bit, tj. There were two Sport-Express writers in Quebec: myself, who was flying to Washington, not Moscow, and Pavel Strizhevsky who had his flight booked long in advance.
There is no bad blood between SS and SE in general. There were some instances when their stringers were trying to paint us to American media as a tabloid, something that is completely and utterly untrue. But this is the kind of behavior that can be expected from non-professionals. I, for one, am quite far from holding SS guys in Moscow responsible for the antics of their stringers. Pavel Lysenkov and I have had a beer together in the past more than once. We are both pros and understand the ethics of the job.
- Slava Malamud
No question, Pavel Lysenkov is a pro unlike others. I love his interviews and his work, that why I don't want to say SovSport is bad, just because of one bad journalist.
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Very often I see a bunch of reporters standing around when Comcast's Lisa Hillary asks players questions. Then those writers use the quotes Lisa unearthes. Does that mean they "steal" from her interview? And who is that one bad journalist?
I think it was very immature for Malamud to call himself the professional when describing others as stringers. I could tell him how many people freelance for SI, XM radio and other media outlets. Does that make them less professional than Malamud?
I liked you writing, Slava. But you are such a crybaby. You just better stick to what you do best: get interviews and publish them, Stop whining! For God's sake. Before you only whined in your Russian blog. Now you are whining in English? Time to grow up.
Oh, and as a native Russian, I read both publications. It is true that the Russian Hockey Federation invited SovSport to fly back to Russia with them on their exclusive charter. Lysenkov came up with some gems from that flight.
And as for Sport-Express, look at the clowns they have there in Larin or Strizhevsky? Malamud, because of the rumblings in his blog, is right up there too now.
ok, did that other Russian m*f*cker asked a single question? If he did, you are right, if he didn't, that sounds like KGB surveillance tape hard copy. I tend to believe to Slava, and maybe I am wrong, but my gut feeling says, "I am not!"
Malamud in not Igor Larin, I can tell you that.
Listen, getting into a spat is the last thing I want here. Readers, whoever they may be, are entitled to their opinions regarding the quality of my writing and my person.
What did rub me the wrong way was seeing my interview, with reworded questions and answers, published under a different name. This was the work I did, the work with which I make my living. I think it is understandable how this can cause a person to get a little upset.
I thought the people who translated this deserved to know. That's it.
- Slava Malamud
tj, can we move on, please? There is the real Malkin interview, along with Ovie, Semin and Crosby, in tonight's edition of SE, complete with a full game analysis, including pre-game quotes (the Ovechkin ones were made in a scrum, so they are not my exclusively, and I credited Tarik for the pre-game Crosby). There is plenty of work to do without this silliness.
I am already sorry for starting this. Probably should have just let it slide, as usual.
Once again (and you can let this stuff stay here instead of updating the blog entry), I have nothing against SS nor am I questioning any specific stories by them besides this one.
- Slava Malamud
Maybe Sport-Express is not real tabloid, but IMHO, it's very close. Especially in case of Pavel Strizhevsky.
Actually, Igor Zakharkin (second coach of Team Russia), was furious about Pavel's article "'Another' Bykov", where Strizhevsky claimed that coaches of Team Russia 'paid' themselves double (or even triple) prize money after WC2008, much more than any player of Team Russia.
Here's official answer by Zakharkin from KHL.RU:
http://www.khl.ru/news/2008/11/9/5679.html
--- my poor translation ---
I think that Pavel Strizhevsky, article's author, was flopped.
...
I think that Sport-Express tries to make the split in Team Russia. We will not tolerate it. We paid very high price to make good moral climate in Team Russia.
...
Sport-Express is not and never has been a tabloid or anything close to it.
Pavel Strizhevsky is one of the best investigative reporters in Russian sports, a receipient of the Hockey Writer of the Year Award by the Russian Hockey Federation and his integrity is beyond reproach.
His critical reporting had led to the dismissal of the corrupt Sergei Arutyunyan, the former second-in-command of the FHR.
This, by the way, is also the reason why, before Arutyunyan's dismissal, SovSport was chosen by FHR as their "media partner", but this is beside the point.
The article critical of Bykov and Zakharkin is not even close to being bad reporting. It referenced rumors and rumors and made no unsusbtatiated claims. That fact that it infuriated the coaching staff is not indicative of anything. Lots of great articles by great reporters infuriate those who are criticized in them.
- Slava Malamud
a typo in the previous post: should read "referenced rumors AS rumors"
- Slava Malamud
Ok, I was real mad yesterday because of SS writer tactics. I knew it was a copy because your preliminary interview was in Capitals Insider and when I read SS interview it was clear to me. I guess you were more mad than you because your work was stolen. But let me ask you this:
How did you let SS writer to publish it before you? You knew he was standing behind you and recording. Don't let them fool you twice, Slava... The news are not the news if they are old. Good lesson learned...
I am pretty sure this happened in N/A media too.
He didn't publish it before me. The SS and SE articles came out on the same day. And my translations of the Malkin, OV and Semin interviews were posted by Tarik long before.
The OV interview in SS is also about 80 percent mine, by the way.
But you are right, I should not tolerate this crap in the future. Especially considering that the stolen (and mangled) interview appeared on PuckDaddy.
- Slava Malamud
Puck Daddy receives everything from Chesnokov before it's even been published by SovSport. By the way, the articles were indeed published the same day, but SovSport published it a few hours earlier. If you want me to help you in the future, send me the interview first for translation and I'll put a link to Sport-Express later.
TuvanHillbilly can help too, you can trust him. Obviously we both have our daily jobs, but I'll do my best to help. I'd be really mad if somebody would steal my work. My email is in the blog.
Hahahahaha, Slava, stop crying like a little girl! Why are you always telling people that you are THE ONE and THE ONLY pro writer? To make yourself feel better about your pathetic self? I really believe you've got some issues, maybe you've got your ass kicked all the time when you were a kid, mabe something else happened...Bottom line: You are the one who is not behaving like a pro!
Cheers!!! :)))
>>It referenced rumors as rumors
But that's exactly the sign of tabloid! Serious issue should not write about rumors, especially in Strizhevsky style (link to "Another Bykov"):
http://www.sport-express.ru/art.shtml?169409
Just one example from article: Pavel claimed that Bykov tried to lie to one Pavel's colleague who had "good informal relations with Bykov".
Where is proof?
Why Pavel not even named his colleague?
>>That fact that it infuriated the coaching staff is not indicative of anything.
When someone wrote something that can hurt not only Bykov and Zakharkin, but whole Team Russia - without ANY proof! - he should be recognized as dirty calumniator.
For me, good responses [about B. and Z.] of virtually any player who played for Team Russia - including ones like Sergei Fedorov and Ilya Kovalchuk - means much more than collection of rumors and lies from Pavel Strizhevsky.
It sounds like Malamud is bitter not at the interview incident, but because he is not on Yahoo.
Grow up, Slava! Stick to what you do best, as I told you. Now all the readers are finding out what a pathetic person you are.
I am with tj here. That other Russian dude is taking credit for someone else's work. Malamud has legitimate concerns. And it does seem that personal attacks from Russian readers are a little bit over the top.
когда цитируется чьё-то интервью, то порядочные люди дают ссылку на источник.
завидую прекраснодушному Russian Readerу, он,видимо, не возражает, когда сделанную им работу присваивают другие и даже спасибо не говорят)
когда цитируется чьё-то интервью, то порядочные люди дают ссылку на источник.
завидую прекраснодушному Russian Readerу, он,видимо, не возражает, когда сделанную им работу присваивают другие и даже спасибо не говорят)
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