Absense of journalists? Unmask the Stig!!

Ok so lets kick this blog post off with a list of headlines and their associated links. Then I probably won’t need to write anything else as you will have worked out what I’m talking about already.

The Sun: Stig Identity is revealed

The Sun: Clarkson names Top Gear’s Stig

The Sun: Fans blitz net in search of Stig ID

The Sun: Top Gear’s FOUR Stigs

The Mirror: The secret identity of Top Gear’s Stig revealed

Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: The eight drivers behind Top Gear stunt driver The Stig’s famous racing whites

Daily Mail: The Stig(s) unmasked: Top Gear use FOUR different mystery test drivers

The Guardian: Top Gear’s Stig: the truth is out there

The Independent: Top Gear’s Stig is unmasked

Telegraph: Top Gear: Rumours that Ben Collins was The Stig started on YouTube more than a year ago

Telegraph: Top Gear staff dress as The Stig

Telegraph: Stig unveiling could spell end of TV career

Telegraph: Stig mystery reignited amid claims he is played by four actors

Telegraph: The Stig’s true identity is still a mystery, claims Top Gear’s James May

Telegraph: Stig mystery reignited amid claims he is played by four actors

Telegraph: Top Gear’s The Stig ‘played by eight drivers’

Telegraph: The Stig mystery: Top Gear’s James May says ‘harmless fairytale’ like Harry Potter and Dr Who

Telegraph: The Stig: Jeremy Clarkson’s new revelation

Identity of Top Gear’s The Stig revealed as B———

Have you got the idea yet? I was going to write a long winded piece about how the lack of journalists, or at least the increase in workload for journalists has led to an increase in silly quick hit stories.

I’ve fallen foul of it myself – having written a number of stories for the sake of ‘filling the gap’ until I’ve been able to properly research and write up a full original feature.

But I decided that the subject had been covered to death so would pick a single ‘quick hit make word story’ and link to all the newspapers that have covered – the Telegraph seem to have really sunk their teeth into the juicy, pointless morsel.

Do I want to know who the Stig is? does it really matter who the Stig is? Do fans really care who the Stig is? No – not really.

But it has got lots of people talking about it, I’ve just linked about eight times to The Telegraph and other newspapers thus increasing their Google Juice and a number of forums, blogs and twitteres have been doing much the same since the story first broke weeks ago.

Still – last word to TopGear.com – who’d have thought Graham Hill was the Stig!

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