USA Today: Football Comes First at the University of Tennessee

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USA Today = National Enquirer?

If this is all they got, I think the Enquirer may in fact do a better job of yellow sensationalist journalism. After all, the Enquirer doesn't pretend to be anything else.

One more piece of trash print journalism to add to enormous pile of stinkin manure that makes me know I did the right thing stopping all newspaper subscriptions decades ago. Don't want my hard earned money going to support a rag only good for catching drips when I change the oil in my car. ... That or starting fires in the winter. And, for that, I get plenty of newsprint thrown on my driveway free.
 
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The article was clearly a hatchet job written from a myopic POV, in the negative. Not mentioned were the vast improvement in team APR or the academic support and resources available to athletes . Comparing UT to Bugger U is really hitting below the belt considering Sandusky's legacy. C'mon man ! :shakehead:
 
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jtipto10 said:
She basically says the biggest travesty is that students might be too lazy to go to class the next day
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Which is a stupid assumption; classes being canceled or not on Thursday does not change what students may or may not do on Friday.
 
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JCHateSteve said:
Just another inflammatory nonstory fishing for clicks. Journalism is dead in this country. We need to change the laws back to where news organizations have to actually report news again. As soon as they were able to start chasing profit before serving the public good the downward spiral started.
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Interesting point. Perhaps if they had to identify a source, we'd find out that there was no source - or certainly not a credible one - or one without a conflict of interest.
 
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JCHateSteve said:
Unfortunately facts don't drive revenue. Tennessee is an easy target thanks to the title 9 suite. Stuff like this is the reason I don't trust anything in the media unless the BBC reports it, which is sad.
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Our press seem to have learned well from Pravda. The party line just varies with social/political orientation; but without doubt, objectivity and factual honesty by the press died years ago,
 
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AM64 said:
Interesting point. Perhaps if they had to identify a source, we'd find out that there was no source - or certainly not a credible one - or one without a conflict of interest.
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I'm assuming their is no source. It's an opinion piece masquerading as news. That's all "journalism" in this country really is anymore. It's been headed that way ever since the fairness doctrine was nixed by the FCC back in the 80s. The advent of 24 hour cable news and the proliferation of the internet accelerated the process. Now, once respected news outlets aren't much better than a supermarket tabloid or are spinning everything to fit someone's agenda.
 
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JCHateSteve said:
I'm assuming their is no source. It's an opinion piece masquerading as news. That's all "journalism" in this country really is anymore. It's been headed that way ever since the fairness doctrine was nixed by the FCC back in the 80s. The advent of 24 hour cable news and the proliferation of the internet accelerated the process. Now, once respected news outlets aren't much better than a supermarket tabloid or are spinning everything to fit someone's agenda.
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What's even sadder is that so many people still read or listen believing that it is factual.
 
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Apparently she's out of touch with college life these days. Has she never heard of "Thirsty Thursday"??? A lot of these college kids wouldn't be going to class on Friday morning anyways, whether there is a Thursday game or not.
 
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AM64 said:
What's even sadder is that so many people still read or listen believing that it is factual.
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People tend to believe what they want to hear. That's why the practice has been so successful. Without an "adult in the room" to keep everyone honest it's a free for all. At one point the FCC was that, but I don't know if they're up to it in the current partisan political climate. That and how do you regulate internet "news"? The internet barely existed when the fairness doctrine fell buy the wayside. We need a new strategy and I honestly have no idea what that should be.
 
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I read the headline and said to myself...we know and we don't care. if it weren't for athletics you wouldn't sell your freaking article...so...?
 
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Reporters are just English majors who don't know anything about the world. They are always slanted and want to create sensation and advance their political (overwhelmingly left wing) agendas that they are indoctrinated in during school. Most are dishonest with subjects they report on and events that they fail to report.
 
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Her intentions were obvious to begin with, however the last three paragraphs validated them. Somehow, she brings up the title IX lawsuit. Not sure how that would relate to a scheduling and academic issue. My only thought is she is trying to hitch her wagon to Anita's.
 
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jtipto10 said:
She basically says the biggest travesty is that students might be too lazy to go to class the next day
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What I find odd about her column is that she acknowledges that logistics and security concerns make it impossible for UT to go about business as usual on the day of a football game. Once the decision was made to move the game to a Thursday night, the decision to cancel classes that day was inevitable. She then transitions to the broad based assumption that everyone in the administration signed off on this (unlikely). She further reveals her agenda by injecting the Title IX suit into her argument (it's irrelevant to this discussion). She had a simplistic narrative and pursued it. This was self-righteous as hell.

Having said that... Thursday night games at UT are a bad idea and shouldn't happen again in the future but as a one time event? Big deal. The kids get a 5 day weekend. Good for them. It won't stunt their academic careers.
 
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This kind of story says to me, "We're baaack!!!"
 
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JCHateSteve said:
People tend to believe what they want to hear. That's why the practice has been so successful. Without an "adult in the room" to keep everyone honest it's a free for all. At one point the FCC was that, but I don't know if they're up to it in the current partisan political climate. That and how do you regulate internet "news"? The internet barely existed when the fairness doctrine fell buy the wayside. We need a new strategy and I honestly have no idea what that should be.
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This. It's amazing the differences the same news story contains depending on which outlet you read from. I could read the same exact story about the Orlando Shooting from The Hill, Fox News, CNN, Huffington Post, etc. and every single outlet would give me completely different takes on what they believe the root cause of it is and claim it as fact.

And like you said, some people that can't think for themselves are too blind to realize what "spinning" an article is or that every media outlet has an agenda in the 21st century. It's no longer just reporting the facts, it's about making a point.
 
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If it's the same as when I went there you was dumb to take a Friday class during football season... You left it open to travel to the games and such..
 
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Tennessee is adding a day to the end of the semester so no class time is being lost. Theoretically, at least. But given that that Thursday is bound to be a daylong party, how many kids are really going to pull themselves out of bed for their Friday morning classes? Or, given that the following Monday is Labor Day, not use it as an excuse to take a five-day weekend?
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I couldn't do that even if the games were on Saturday. If a kid isn't going to class, a kid isn't going to class. The onus is on the kid, not the situation.
 
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