How Things Work In The Media

I thought this comment by Johan Bruyneel was interesting:
“I am really surprised by [Floyd] Landis saying this during the Tour de France,” Bruyneel, director to the Discovery Channel team and Our Boy Lance throughout his seven Tour wins, said. “Normally, if you’re the favorite, you should be trying to hide any weakness. If it had been Lance in this situation, he wouldn’t have talked about it.”
Landis, of course, "went public," so to speak, when he talked with freelancer Daniel Coyle (see photo) for the New York Times magazine in confidence last spring. Landis certainly knew that the magazine planned to publish the article during the Tour (it is scheduled to be published on Sunday, but the Times pre-published the story online late last Sunday and allowed cycling writer Samuel Abt to write the scoop story in order not to be scooped themselves). Perhaps Landis thought the story would break before now. Perhaps he got caught up in his Tour preparation; he is particularly focused, after all. But other than possibly knowing when the Times planned to publish the story, publication and the timing was not under Landis's control.