Remember when the "Universal Racing Network" and a few minutes of a black and white Chris Economaki/"Wide World of Sports" WAS the electronic media, as far as NASCAR was concerned? AND remember how we thought that was better than sliced bread AND WE JUST WANTED MORE?? And remember when you had to be creative if you didn't "get" CBS and the Daytona 500 was just around the corner, AND how you had to find a friend/motel/relative/stranger that did? AND we could only dream of the day when NASCAR was "just like the NFL". Remember all of that?Well, unkown to us Southern 500-on-Labor-Day-luvin' sons of DIXIE, help was on the way. "URN" morphed into France-controlled "MRN" and (of course) Bruton had to establish an "opposite"...... PRESTO: "PRN". "Wide World of Sports" became NASCAR/NBC/FOX/SPEED/TNT/"A-ESPN"/-TV the undisputed mother of all goat rodeos that we've all come to love and enjoy.We have all sat spell-bound 'round the boob-toob as the various NACAR-planted-and-approved commentators dove head-first from their sound stage into the live CROWD. (What journalism school teaches "crowd diving"?) Well, I'm digressing a bit, it's usually Jeff Hammond that dives into the throng, amid much laughing and hollering............... and the waving of 'junior' anything/everything...........from 'junior nation'...........but EVEN better journalism : Jimmy Spencer executing the NASCAR-Swan-Dive. Let's see that one! See, it's about entertainment! Right!It IS entertainment, I think we're all on the same page, here, but one curve-ball that all these commentators are not only throwing, but perpetuating, is the concept of "change". In an effort to have news to report, the media execs, have focused huge amounts of journalistic fire-power at the pit stop. The changes that are going to be made, the changes that have been made, the changes that need to be made. To the neophyte observer, auto racing is simply a sea of changes (made) to the race car. And, what is probably more important and more damaging, the neophyte DRIVER developes a mind-set whereby victory (and a successful career) is absolutely impossible without the proper changes.Of course, there IS some truth to changes and adjustments, but the DRIVER is STILL an integral component of any race car. The change phenomena can become a crutch, a constant mind-set of negative expectations. A self-fulfilling prophecy. Curtis Turner, and Fonty Flock had a one phrase answer to Smokey Yunick: ".....the car's perfect..........don't change a thing" Of course, the car WAS NOT perfect. The drivers of yesteryear understood that modifications of their driving techique to compenstate for the car's shortcomings were essential. I know this is not 1954, and we're a little further down the road than those "Fabulous Hudson Hornets" but the sport's basic concepts have not changed. But WE are changing drivers. And future drivers. Now they ALL say the same thing.............bad set of tires..........aero push.......loose in tight off........etc. etc.Drivers ARE athletes. Just like ball players, and some are better than others. Not every member of the squad can be the quarterback, and not every quarterback wins the Hiesman trophy. Good drivers show their talent and potential very early. Good drivers possess resume's that attest to their talent, regardless of vehicle. Good drivers win races........not just because of mechanical advantages, but because they are winners. The sooner the electronic media understands the sport they are covering, the better the sport will be.