USA Today: Football Comes First at the University of Tennessee

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Milehigh_Vol said:
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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That just devalued my degree from UT. :thud

Gave a like for being factually correct. Friday classes, no bueno!
 
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VersaceButch said:
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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It's hard to be objective about things sometimes. That used to be the journalist's job. For those who grew up being able to take the news at face value, having to fact check everything you hear must be strange concept. For the younger folks the question is how do you get your bearings to start with? How can you be sure your looking at current events objectively when all you've ever known are heavily skewed and competing interpretations of them? Interesting times I guess.
 
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USA Today, did football come first when Tennessee hired Kiffin or Dooley, go ponder.......you may have it all wrong.....
 
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JCHateSteve said:
It's hard to be objective about things sometimes. That used to be the journalist's job. For those who grew up being able to take the news at face value, having to fact check everything you hear must be strange concept. For the younger folks the question is how do you get your bearings to start with? How can you be sure your looking at current events objectively when all you've ever known are heavily skewed and competing interpretations of them? Interesting times I guess.
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Welcome to the real world.
 
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m1al said:
Journalism is quite dead. It passed away a long time ago...
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My wife is a journalist and has been for almost 40 years. She recently told me that today's writer resembles nothing like the original intent of truth reporting. It started basically when Walter Cronkite starting inserting his liberal politics into his reporting and its exploded since then. Seriously it's laughable to people who actually understand what's going on to watch NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC etc. It's almost like a Saturday Night Live show. Sports has become the new avenue to spin whatever your angle is. This article is exhibit A.
 
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Damn right it does and that ***** at the USAToday better not forget it :)


PS (it also pays for a lot of things at the uni)
 
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m1al said:
Journalism is quite dead. It passed away a long time ago...
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There's still some real quality about, but it's hard to find amid the chaff.

The Internet has increased the number of writers and decreased the number of editors, so there's an awful lot of poorly researched crap out there.

At least we'll always be able to rely on the fact that the USA Today is still a fish wrapper. That paper has been a joke since it started.
 
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VersaceButch said:
Armour: Athletics come first at Tennessee and shutting down the school proves it

Welp.....took longer than I thought I guess. First slam piece on Tennessee. Can't even fathom how some people don't take the time to think out the logistics of 100,000 people on a 27,000 person campus in the heart of our downtown business district.

And the fact that we replaced the day they cancelled with an extra day. This is why I hate journalism. Very little integrity anymore.
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This is written by someone who obviously has not visited Knoxville recently, if ever. Last week was the first time I had been back in 21 months. Cumberland Ave looks like a war zone. That was very smart of the university to cancel classes for that day. The traffic gridlock is going to be bad enough as is.
 
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kcvols1 said:
There's still some real quality about, but it's hard to find amid the chaff.

The Internet has increased the number of writers and decreased the number of editors, so there's an awful lot of poorly researched crap out there.

At least we'll always be able to rely on the fact that the USA Today is still a fish wrapper. That paper has been a joke since it started.
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My old journalism professor referred to USA today as "McPaper."
 
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Money comes first at Tennessee. Because the opportunity at Thursday night could make more money for the AD (and, in turn, their annual donation to Tennessee), the game was moved. Money rules all.
 
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