If Deflate-gate has proved one thing, it is that American sports journalism is an absolute joke

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9 years ago 01/28/2015 2:35pm EST

'Respectable' writers like shaughnessy, McMullen, King and others drawing conclusions based on unconfirmed reports that quote 'facts' taken out of context, and that seem to change every few hours. TV personalities like Wilbon bloviating about integrity when he doesn't see, for some crazy reason, that publicly indicting someone without knowing the facts is actually an act lacking some integrity.

The whole thing is disgusting. All these sports media darlings pulling stuff completely out of their a$$es and acting like they are so much better than coaches like Belichick.

9 years ago 01/28/2015 2:52pm EST

re: Freedom Trail

If only the problem was limited to American or sports journalism.

For example, instead of focusing on forecasting the DC region's weather this week, the Washington Post's weather gang started worrying about NYC and New England. They had the right idea, that the snow was going to miss DC but the reports but you had to read every word of their articles to understand that their titles were talking about 100s of miles away...

9 years ago 01/28/2015 2:59pm EST

re: Freedom Trail

That's like saying photographic evidence from a space telescope yesterday proved that the planets revolve around the sun.

9 years ago 01/28/2015 4:54pm EST

re: Freedom Trail

Athletics and entertainment are much closer to being synonymous now than just a decade or two ago. As much of this media attention that may be complete BS, people would rather see Marshawn Lynch make a fool of himself on TV or hear Belichick cold shoulder reporters than to hear a sports reporter list off some obscure record someone broke for the most rushing touchdowns in an away game when receiving the ball first but trailing by more than 7 in the second half. Unless it involves drugs or beating a woman, most publicity is good publicity for these franchises

9 years ago 01/28/2015 5:13pm EST

re: Freedom Trail

Virtually everything on TV is a joke. I dropped cable a couple years ago, and now whenever I catch something on TV it almost always comes across as insulting because it's all so ridiculous.

They have TV shows where all they do is talk about actors who play in other TV shows. WTF?

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