I said I will be back with some more content, so here we go! A few days ago, Ramy Ashour had retired from squash, and the whole squash world was affected, media are full of that content, people are sad and all squash players are giving him praise for his great career. Would the same happen if I was to retire from squash? You´re right, it would not. Why is that? Yeah, it´s success.
I found out about it through social media, and read a nice article which you can read here: https://psaworldtour.com/news/view/6342/ramy-ashour-announces-retirement
This article is completely dedicated to him and his career achievements. Don´t get me wrong here, I am not trying to dishonour his legacy and the fact that he is a great player, I am just objectively looking at how his success the effect on all the people and media. It is safe to say that articles like that would not be written about somebody who has not achieved as much. Now you could argue that if the article was about someone without that success, there would simply not be enough to write about, right? We assume that it´s the successful story that creates the content. What if there is a great story under the "unsuccessful" person? It could be interesting, if we allowed ourselves to not judge somebody by their achievements.
To help you understand my point, you can look at the video below.
What we can see in the video is success, his wins, all the highlights of his career that are very successful. This is the reason I say that media is very success - driven. Not only media favours success, even fans choose who will they support according to their success many times, instead of liking the person himself.
References
Production, K. (2019, April 24). Ramy Ashour retirement. Retrieved April 27th, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z0NmkgC5YY
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