Rubbish coverage in print media

Following is the text of a letter to the editor submitted this evening to the Sunday Star Times.  No best they will run it, but maybe it's time for rally enthusiasts to get up off their backsides and start making some noise on the part of their sport.
Silence is deemed to be assent.

Sir,

I know it seems like an easy target, but Michael Donaldson’s “hate it” listing of the Rally of NZ and its carbon footprint in the Sunday Star Times today is as wide of the mark as I would expect any ballsport journo’s worldview to be.  And as simplistic.
Rally NZ puts us on a world stage.  Sells the very tourism values that Michael calls into question.  No rugby, cricket or netball game ever does that, nor will they.
More to the point, the carbon footprint and fossil fuel wastage of any ballsport event is well in excess of that of our late lamented international championship motorsport event – even though attendances at most major events staged by our national sporting religions are declining.
In the Sunday Star that carried the “hate” message about Rally NZ’s carbon footprint, motorsport rated a mere 10 cm of locally written space along with some random F1 blurb plucked off the web.  
Rugby got whole pages, cricket too.  
Horse racing, a sport in decline and yet given massive and unjustifiable prominence in our major national Sunday paper, went on and on for pages.  The latter, I am sure is mostly due to the traditional liking of journalists for “a bit of a flutter” once the paper’s put to bed and the newsroom has adjourned to the local pub.
Simplistic, dated and unsophisticated, the sport journalist looks quite like other cold-blooded life forms that have died out on this planet, and seem likely to go the same way.