That’s ESPN.
The same thing’s coming to a university near you.
That’s ESPN.
The same thing’s coming to a university near you.
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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August 28th, 2013 at 12:29PM
ESPN has no integrity, neither does NBC. That was made apparent with their handling of the Manti Teo dead grandmother/girlfriend story. Teo was an All American linebacker at overblown football factory, Notre Dame, who putatively suffered the loss of both his grandmother and girlfriend within hours of each other. The story was so maudlin, how this brave footballer overcame the sorrow and plowed his way through dozens of hapless nonbelievers, in order to become the most honored football player of all time. That was the log line that ESPN followed for nearly six months, until Deadspin did most the basic of journalistic follow up and found that their was no dead girlfriend, there was no woman at all, she never existed, nor did her tragic demise.
Now, anyone with just a nodding acquaintance with the reporting business would know that you need, at the very least, three sources prior to publication. ESPN and NBC are two of the largest media conglomerates on the planet, ESPN = Disney + ABC, NBC = Comcast. You’re going to tell me that these guys, with aggregate resources in the hundreds of billions, couldn’t have done even a modicum of journalism and found out that this was a scam within a couple of hours? They claimed that Teo was fooled by a couple of people who wanted to hoax him, for no other apparent reason than they didn’t like him. Again, all it takes to put one over on ESPN/NBC was nothing more than a couple of penniless guys, with some social media savvy. If this is what they want to us to believe and we do, then we’re nothing but morons, ripe for the taking.
The reality is that our biggest media corps are venal, corrupt institutions, who will sacrifice integrity for whatever is going to make them the most money. Anyone who follows college athletics knows that there is major corruption and organized crime influences within athletic departments, as seen with University of Miami. The massive head trauma going on with footballers, as well as PED use which contributes to the problem, will be ignored, the liability that the universities are facing unmentioned. As with Manti Teo, the media knows the truth, they believe that we’re too stupid to care if they lie to us.
August 28th, 2013 at 12:32PM
And, yes, I do know the difference between “there” and “their.”