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re: What did Kim do?

Posted on 3/24/24 at 12:49 pm to
Posted by InkStainedWretch
Member since Dec 2018
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Posted on 3/24/24 at 12:49 pm to
That’s tinfoil hat stuff. Most journalists don’t let themselves become crazed devoted fans of the teams at the places they get their diplomas, and they certainly don’t carry that with them once they get their diplomas and leave in the way that message board fans do.

I will tell you … and this started becoming the case 40 years ago, it’s nothing new … the thing with sports journalists not being satisfied just to cover games (like I was, that was what I loved to do and was my strength) and wanting to rabble rouse and dig up caca and tear powerful people down isn’t strictly a liberal/conservative deal although I am not going to insult your intelligence by telling you some of that isn’t present especially these days.

More than anything the sports journalists who do stuff like this are anti-authority. They view it as evil that powerful coaches make a caca load of money and live in mansions and have security guards around them and more than anything have enormous power and status and get to tell others what to do …. they don’t think anyone should get to tell anyone else what to do, period … so they must be put in their place.

And the dirtiest little secret is that a lot of these folks in their heart of hearts actually hate sports, think it’s beneath them and that the coaches and players they cover and the fans they write for are morons.
This post was edited on 3/24/24 at 1:01 pm
Posted by PerrillouxToTexas
Member since Sep 2022
5691 posts
Posted on 3/24/24 at 1:08 pm to
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and that the coaches and players they cover and the fans they write for are morons.


Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
91194 posts
Posted on 3/24/24 at 1:18 pm to
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And the dirtiest little secret is that a lot of these folks in their heart of hearts actually hate sports, think it’s beneath them and that the coaches and players they cover and the fans they write for are morons.


I believe it. Though I’ll never understand why someone would choose as a career to write and report on an activity and people they hate. What a miserable existence

If I hated catfish farming I wouldn’t be doing it. Hell I love it and some days the stress still makes me wonder why I do it
Posted by OlGrandad
Member since Oct 2009
3540 posts
Posted on 3/24/24 at 1:31 pm to
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… the thing with sports journalists not being satisfied just to cover games


My uncle was a sports writer in the late 40s and 50s. He was friends with Ty Cobb , who called him when he found out my uncle was in a terminal situation. He would tell me stories about the sports figures he would party with. I asked him if he had ever considered writing a book about all these adventures".

He said no, his job was to write about sports and he would never cross that line .
Posted by Diego Ricardo
Alabama
Member since Dec 2020
6020 posts
Posted on 3/24/24 at 1:33 pm to
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[Journalists] think […] that the coaches and players they cover and the fans they write for are morons.

And the sad thing is that they are right!
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