Journalism at an all time low

#27
#27
Giveem6 said:
So today while I was working, I'm just thinking about everything that happened the past couple weeks and I realized that we are in a age of media click bait and awful journalism.

I mean it was about as bad as it gets when it came to our coaching hire. Literally false or inaccurate report after inaccurate report. We hired four coaches I'm pretty sure according to multiple different sporting outlets and offered Jon Gruden $10 mil a year, while he was out searching for a coaching staff!? What in the actual hell is going on with the media??!

Gruden trolled the fanbase for fun and money and that's ****ty to do but whatever. What is funny is Jimmy Hyams and the Jeff Brohm debacle. I don't care for Jimmy, he's an idiot and I'm glad he made himself look like an ass.

That being said, why has it gotten to this point? Is it people searching for just clicks = money or are we just at a point in time where people say whatever will get them attention and throw sh** at a wall and see what sticks?

When something was reported way back when, it meant something (except for AL Gore, NBC really blew their load on that one lol).
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I’ve worked in the media for decades. It’s became a liberal political machine and sports is no different. Sad, but there is no integrity, just agendas and sensalization
 
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#28
#28
Gruden didn't troll the fan base. A bunch of trolls made our fan base look like fools.
 
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Still can't understand why the KNS continues to stick their thumbs in the eyes of their readers with:
--John Adams always writing the most negative or divisive articles he can imagine.
--Joe Rexrode writing his drivel from Nashville proving that he has no idea about Tennessee athletics
--Wolken who is a Vandy grad and we get stuck with his idiocy from the USA Today section of KNS

The News-Sentinel has lost total touch with its base. This is East Tennessee. The overwhelming majority of us are conservative and Tennessee fans. You probably shouldn't run a business attacking both with exaggerations, parodies and outright lies.
 
#31
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NAILS said:
The new social media stuff is a whole new world. It's good and bad. It totally spun the last presidential race. We got trump because of it.
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I love our God Emperor but this isn't the political forum. This forum really needs to be a politics free zone.

There are many points that can be made about journalism that have nothing to do with politics.
 
#32
#32
Here's an example of my problem with modern "journalism."

On Twitter, Rocky Top Insider is reporting that the Schiano MOU is "reportedly" invalid: Twitter

When you click the link, it takes you to a story on rockytopinsider.com, which basically says that according to Jimmy Hyams, the MOU is invalid. It links to this piece: http://www.sportsradiownml.com/2017/12/08/jimmys-blog-schiano-mou-invalid-according-to-ut-bylaws/

Of course, Jimmy has not seen the MOU. Likewise, he is not reporting "news" that the MOU has been deemed invalid by a court of law. Likewise, he is not a judge or even a practicing lawyer who might have a reasonably well educated opinion on this matter. He doesn't cite to the opinions of any lawyers or judges either. Jimmy just gives his opinion, which appears to be: based on UT's bylaws (which may or may not have been provided to Schiano) the university would not consider itself to have signed the MOU unless it was signed by the Chief Financial Officer. In other words, UT has some internal rules about who needs to sign an agreement like this, and that may be relevant, but there is no indication that Schiano would have known this, or that a judge has even considered the issue. NOTHING IS RESOLVED!

The headline should have been that "(Non-Lawyer) Jimmy Hyams Believes UT May Have an Argument That the MOU is Invalid, But Nothing Is Settled Yet." Instead, Hyams declares the MOU invalid, and the other outlets report his opinion as fact. Their "articles" mostly just repeat what Jimmy said, but they have a "source" so they call it news. Then Twitter, because you only get 280 characters, can't report the nuance and the story that propagates through the social media sphere becomes "Schiano MOU is Invalid."

There's lots of blame to go around, but the "reporting" is crappy. Also, Hyams' legal opinion is lacking.
 
#33
#33
Journalists just want to be first. It seems it doesn't matter to them how right they are. This is old news.
 
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