Is it our AD or Media that is the problem?

#51
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GetEmVols said:
Our media seems so hungry to always get the headline story that they post inaccurate information based on a "source"

I was led to believe that Austin Thomas was out recruiting for us and that it was 100% a done deal. The media needs to stop posting stuff before our department introduces staff.

I am tired of our media posting stuff and then the national media sharing what our local media shares as truth. It makes us look like people are rejecting us left and right when really we just never had an agreement in the first place.
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AD nor media drove the Gruden train. It's our own fans that do this to themselves. Who else in the country cares this much about a guy making $125k in an athletic department admin position?:loco:
 
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GetEmVols said:
Our media seems so hungry to always get the headline story that they post inaccurate information based on a "source"

I was led to believe that Austin Thomas was out recruiting for us and that it was 100% a done deal. The media needs to stop posting stuff before our department introduces staff.

I am tired of our media posting stuff and then the national media sharing what our local media shares as truth. It makes us look like people are rejecting us left and right when really we just never had an agreement in the first place.
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It's unfortunate, but I bet it happens just about everywhere that news is very fluid. We live in an information now culture and generation, and I don't see it stopping anytime soon. Blame the internet and smart phones.:bad:
 
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VolRoger said:
It's unfortunate, but I bet it happens just about everywhere that news is very fluid. We live in an information now culture and generation, and I don't see it stopping anytime soon. Blame the internet and smart phones.:bad:
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No, blame people. This is no different from the argument about guns vs who actually points and pulls the trigger. The means may be there, but it's still the human -supposedly blessed with wisdom and judgement - who decides to use it or not, and for good or not.

Otherwise, you have to start considering licensing smartphones and internet use just like guns and cars. You hold people accountable for their actions; technology is just there; it doesn't decide.
 
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OP seems to me you answered you own question in your first sentence. Media has devolved into the practice of creating narratives rather than reporting the truth and has always tried to out scoop rivals. I started out in college in journalism. Didn't like the path it pointed to. Professionalism in journalism is all too rare these days.
 
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what problem? who cares what people 'think'...never gonna please em all.

i'll say this, media needs to push 'discourse' and 'drama' , it sells advertising and website click bait...they 'have' to in order to have a job
 
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AM64 said:
No, blame people. This is no different from the argument about guns vs who actually points and pulls the trigger. The means may be there, but it's still the human -supposedly blessed with wisdom and judgement - who decides to use it or not, and for good or not.

Otherwise, you have to start considering licensing smartphones and internet use just like guns and cars. You hold people accountable for their actions; technology is just there; it doesn't decide.
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"You hold people accountable for their actions; technology is just there; it doesn't decide." Well, yeah..... but that presents the common argument about what to regulate and how much. The libertarian view would be almost no regulation. Regulating internet use in this context is certainly a bridge too far, IMO. But where do you draw that line? As a culture and a country we are still deciding that, and it won't be solved on an internet fan forum. Our current tendency to boil everything down to 140 characters is a significant problem.
 
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volsack said:
This. One million times, this. How many times have fans on this site cited their "inside source" as fact when its just as inaccurate as anyone else??
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I have an inside source that says it is 75% of the time. :)
 
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GetEmVols said:
Our media seems so hungry to always get the headline story that they post inaccurate information based on a "source"

I was led to believe that Austin Thomas was out recruiting for us and that it was 100% a done deal. The media needs to stop posting stuff before our department introduces staff.

I am tired of our media posting stuff and then the national media sharing what our local media shares as truth. It makes us look like people are rejecting us left and right when really we just never had an agreement in the first place.
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The problem is anyone with a Blog, facebook live or a Youtube channel can be a media member.

All the wanna be media is the problem, they were the ones swearing by everything that they owned that Gruden was coming to Tennessee

They want to get a leg up on the real media by spreading rumors that may or may not come true!

Fake News comes from the wanna be media Members!
 
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#60
It's a simple matter of supply and demand.
People tend to choose to only follow a news outlet that closely mirrors their beliefs, see CNN and Fox News. These media outlets realize this and go over the top with sensational stories to whip their blind followers into a frenzy to keep their ratings up. People's need to feel justified and right drives the demand to hear anything to back up their beliefs and it doesn't really matter if it's factual or not. The outlets are more than happy to supply them with the narrative they demand. News has become big business and is all about the money and not the truth. Once people start to actually demand the truth, even if it might go against what they believe, the media will supply it. Until then, we will only get the bs that brings the ratings.
 
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When people say 'the Media' .. what are you speaking of? Something called 'SaturdaysdownSouth' ..whatever that is ? 'Blogs' like that and SBNation are basically guys who work at TireHut and Piggly Wiggly or more likely low level board-ops and media wannabees who want to hit 'it first' who repackage twitter rumors on their lunch breaks. That's not real stuff and you should know better. That's who got it wrong. What exactly did the big guys (Travis, ESPN, Knox papers) get wrong? As a matter of fact most of the jokes I hear about the actual journalists are making fun of their 'being last to report' - as in 'Hyams reporting WW2 ended' jokes and all that. So which way do you want it?
 
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