Camille is Back

Aravaipa Running just posted an episode of Laps & Legends with Scott Traer and Callie Vinson interviewing Camille Herron. (I’m not quite sure what the difference is between that Youtube channel and the Mountain Outpost one?) This interview seems to be the first media appearance by Camille Herron since the “Wikipedia- gate”. Her X/Twitter account had just been reactivated too apparently, with a post comparing her to Joan of Arc. No link for this as I cancelled my accounts there and anyway was blocked by her. Probably symbolic too that the one social media account reactivated is that at Elon’s cesspool.

I watched the video, and I really don’t know how to feel about all this. 25 minutes of smiles and giggles and “Camille, you’re such a star”. No mention of the epic implosion that happened earlier year. Is this how media is supposed to work? Isn’t this gaslighting? No acknowledgment, or explanation, or god forbid an apology. We’ve seen this play out over and over again with powerful people in business and politics. And the media in its impotence and accessory to it all just lets it happen, over and over again.

We’ve gotten so used to it from the mainstream media, but when this behavior arrives in our little niche of a sport and culture it feels … different?

Maybe I’m wrong on all this. Maybe the role of sports media is to just focus on the athletic performance. Are we just promoters of the achievements on the trails, or track, or wherever it happens. Maybe this sport of ours should just be a judgement free zone. Focused on statistics, numbers, and winners. Maybe we should just let everyone get away with everything and hope that the concept of karma exists, so we can wipe your hands off of responsibility. And maybe we aren’t interested in building culture and lifting up humanity at all. And maybe I’m just tired, very very tired.