Track and Field News Falls For Another Hoax

Not Quite Right wrote:

Well not quite. T&FN are the original rich fan boys who weasel credentials to the sport they love but never made a dime in magazine sales. LR and the others are the same, rich kids, who fake like they're real press but make all kinds of stupid mistakes and use other rich kids and high school coaches for volunteer writers, bloggers, photographers, etc. The fan boys hang out together in the press box and after the meet at the meet hotel and have a good old time talking T&F. There's no rivalry, no profit motive, no need for journalistic integrity when you live on someone else's fortune. What a life ! I'm jealous ;-)

That's right. Because we all know how much profit motive has driven up journalistic integrity in mainstream media.

I am noticeably dumber for having read this thread. Thank you all for your wonderful contributions to this worthwhile discussion.

Brilliantly funny. Post of the month!!

OhLooky wrote:

A bloody battle is being waged over the heart and soul of the sport of track and field by several cut throat players including Letsrun, T&F news and several young, up and coming up starts. It is a cut throat, knock down bloody fight and at the end of the day only one player will be left standing...the one who is the most ruthless and cunning.

Makes for a good novel, don't it. Working title..."Danger - The Unauthorized biography of the world's most beguiling sport", starring the brothers Johnson of Letsrun, the senior citizens at Track and Field news, and a bunch of tech geeks at various track upstarts.

Wendell Gee wrote:

Like letsrun has never posted bogus crap before? Are you too young to remember the Webb/Teg 5k hoax of ... a month ago?

Yup, Gary Hill and gang have a great sense of humor.

10/10

How about consideration for Fox "News". Talk about a hoax, nearly their entire lineup of "stories" verge on non-truth, hoax, lie. Yet, they are super profitable because dufus uneducatable Americans buy it. If anything is bringing down this country it is the 1984 press that now controls the "think" of a majority of Americans. Patriotism becomes "treason", lies become "Patriotism" and hoaxes become "fact". LR is nothing more, nothing less than Fox and the talk show talking heads.

Years ago, I stopped watching broadcast news because it was so biased toward the left. It was just easier to read the newspapers and reach my own conclusions.

Now, about 25 years later, I read about news "bias," generally about Fox, which has a point of view to the right of the left biased networks.

For 25 years, I just thought that many people just couldn't recognize bias. You can, you're just very selective, or biased, in when you announce it.