re: Odd how al.com hates Bama

This is exactly what I’m getting at. Auburn and their big boosters control the state media. They have since the beginning of the Tuberville era. Anyone saying otherwise is either whistling past the graveyard or gaslighting us.

No one under 35 really cares about or follows traditional media. It isn’t trusted or followed. News is consumed through Reddit, Twitter, etc.

I’ll steer clear of the political part of it. But it’s really only one …person.

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No one under 35 really cares about or follows traditional media. It isn’t trusted or followed. News is consumed through Reddit, Twitter, etc.

I’ll steer clear of the political part of it. But it’s really only one …person.

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Reddit, twitter, etc are worse too but it can be hyper-personalized to say the untrustworthy bullshite you want to hear instead of just saying the mean average consensus bullshite you don't want to hear.

I suppose I’m making the value judgment that is better for social cohesion for there to be a shared lens on reality that is propagandized BS than 350m different ones.

I have no idea how they are still in business

I hate to spoil the narrative, but Al.com actually is profitable right now, they are one of the few media organizations that has figured out how to monetize the Internet.

And you know how they’re doing it? By running clickbait and fluff and by running apocalyptic weather stories every time there’s a marginal chance that it’s going to thunder.

I see where Jeff “War Eagle” Speegle of ABC 33/40 in Birmingham is slobbering all over AU tonight. He’s another instate media personality who’s got ties to AU. His son graduated from there.

Honestly, a good number of our posters give Goodman incentive. I am pretty convinced he crafts a lot of his articles after reading this thread. Just today his article is, “Alabama Football Teeters on the Brink”. Where might he get such an unhinged narrative from?

Who’s defending them? I believe I made it clear in my last post that the way they do things now is repulsive to me. I just made the comment, in response to someone wondering how they stay in business, that what I hear through the grapevine, is that they are in the black.

I haven’t heard Charles Goldberg’s name in years. He was a twerp. Hollis had a fatal heart attack a few years back. Charles was a good guy.

The only thing I would offer, you can construe it as defending if you like, every media outlet in this state except Tuscaloosa and Opelika, who generally ignored the other side as if they didn’t exist, has always walked a tightrope with this rivalry because there are just as many Barn fans screaming bias from the other direction.

I got a call from a Barn fan one time accusing my publication of being biased toward Bama because a Bama preview story was five lines of type, probably one column inch, longer than the Barn preview story. I said I would bring it to someone’s attention.

It’s been 30 years since I have been involved with it but I will speak from the perspective of 30 to 40 years ago. At that point in time, Auburn may have had the best sports information/publicity operation in the history of collegiate sports and Alabama may have had the worst. I have zero idea what it’s like now.

I was an outlier back then in that I didn’t care one way or the other, I was there to do a job and I found away to do the job without having anyone hold my hand whether I was at Bryant-Denny or Jordan-Hare. But people back then who liked having their arse kissed? I’m not going to sit here and lie and tell you that it isn’t human nature to look more favorably on people who kissed your arse compared to people who weren’t just indifferent, they were in some cases incompetent assholes.