Espn!!! Why??? How???

#27
#27
tidefan1 said:
His brashness rubs everybody, except for you guys, the wrong way. He painted a target on himself. He wanted the attention and he is getting it even if some of it is unwarranted.
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I said this a few days ago in response to one of your other insignificant posts, and I say again....Go Away.

You never offer insight and contribute nothing to the board. Post elsewhere.
 
#32
#32
tidefan1 said:
His brashness rubs everybody, except for you guys, the wrong way. He painted a target on himself. He wanted the attention and he is getting it even if some of it is unwarranted.
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In the same manner that you and the other Bammers ignore the lying weasel that is your coach. Saban is good at what he does, so you love him and everyone else hates him.

My own sweet wife, the Bama fan, when Saban was hired commented on what a lying, low-life, vulgar scum he seemed to be. Then she said, "Maybe I'll get a National Championship t-shirt out of it."
 
#33
#33
Happens all the time, yet we only really care or pay attention to it when it happens to our team or effects us. And just like those other stories, it will slowly fade away and be placed in the media archive.... where it will remain
 
#34
#34
VOLinPD said:
Same thing happened with the "Kiffin offers 13 yr old boy scholarship" story. It was all over the front page of all the major sites, ESPN, yahoo, etc., but there was no retraction story when turned out to be completely 100% false. If there was one, it certainly wasn't on the front page. Journalism standards have definitely gone down the toilet.
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This is a standard across every news agency that is run as a for-profit business. Someone realized years ago that you can run sensationalist pieces to generate views and quick profit, and bury the retractions to keep a facade of professionalism. I love how we Vol fans have suddenly discovered this trend when it affects us, and before anyone moves on to "liberal media" let me just say there's nothing political about it; it's just the way business is done nowadays.
 
#35
#35
Snakes on a Wii said:
This is a standard across every news agency that is run as a for-profit business. Someone realized years ago that you can run sensationalist pieces to generate views and quick profit, and bury the retractions to keep a facade of professionalism. I love how we Vol fans have suddenly discovered this trend when it affects us, and before anyone moves on to "liberal media" let me just say there's nothing political about it; it's just the way business is done nowadays.
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Agreed. Sadly, this is a reflection of their customers. Society dictates how business is run.
 
#36
#36
GoVols said:
Agreed. Sadly, this is a reflection of their customers. Society dictates how business is run.
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The even sadder thing is that public retractions might not help that much. I recall a psychological study that showed that people are more likely to believe in something after it has been debunked because of faulty memory. The idea is someone sees a skeptic explain why psychics are frauds, and a year later all the audience remembers is "huh, you know I saw those psychics on a news network one time so maybe there's something to that" or "Well if he worked so hard to debunk it there must be something to it!".

In any case, public denials and legalese-worded "apologies" are so heavily identified with scandals that when people see them it causes them to connect to other scandals. But that doesn't make me feel any better to see business as usual at the NYT and other places. You can be sure that if a retraction is ever issued it will be buried in page 9 somewhere. News screw-ups don't sell papers.
 
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