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I may be heading over at some point permanently. Idk. Obviously gonna stick around here for sports stuff, but just sick of the downfall Elon’s wrought on this place. It just isn’t that fun anymore.
Only reason I’ve stuck it out is for my mutuals and because I’m stubborn.
@weeabob *in best Jerma bit voice*
"Make your choice, Mr. Keighly. This entire room will fill with GAS, killing everyone in attendance, unless you allow your bih to go through your phone."
With all the attention on the Russini/Vrabel affair, there has not been nearly enough focus on the the role of @nytimes@TheAthletic and @espn…
Journalistically, it is astonishing and extremely telling that the New York Times initially fully backed the lies of Russini. This was strange when the story first broke, but now that a mountain of evidence has been uncovered, and she resigned on her own, even eventually deleting her social media, it is clear the NY Times completely failed when it came to basic journalistic instincts and investigative skills. They were probably also influenced by their arrogance because the story first broke in the @nypost which the NY Times looks down upon.
It is now clear that the NY Times was exposed as completely clueless when it came to evaluating their own journalistic standards, and it should be a black mark on their record forever, making people fundamentally question their basic judgment.
The ESPN situation is perhaps even more interesting and telling because of their history when it comes to covering stories of alleged sexual improprieties and supposed organizational cover ups.
It has been the height of hypocrisy and journalistic malpractice that, to this date, even with the story having HUGE significance because it has impacted the NFL Draft, one of ESPN’s biggest events of the year, that ESPN has not reported AT ALL on the photos indicating that Russini was having an affair with Vrabel while she was a key reporter for ESPN and he was the coach of the Titans. Incredibly, they haven’t even released a substantive statement as of yet.
When you compare this total silence to how ESPN immediately decided in November 2011, with ZERO actual evidence/logic, that Joe Paterno and Penn State had obviously been engaged in a cover up of Jerry Sandusky’s presumed crimes, going literally wall to wall with coverage until Paterno was eventually fired, it is extremely enlightening.
While the stories are obviously not totally analogous, at the core of ESPN’s Penn State coverage was their fervent belief that it would be impossible for Sandusky to be engaged in the behavior alleged (even as a FORMER employee of Penn State) without Penn Stare knowing about it. It was also assumed by ESPN that Penn State had a huge incentive to cover up the story (which, since Sandusky was a former employee at the time of the key allegation, never made any sense).
Based on ESPN’s own precedent/standard, it is more than fair to presume that it would be impossible for ESPN to not realize that one of their primary NFL reporters was engaged in an affair with an NFL head coach (especially given all the hints Russini was leaving publicly). It would also be totally reasonable to presume that ESPN was more than willing to cover up this information because they were clearly benefiting from Russini’s unique “access” to news. It would not even be a stretch to presume, using the standard that ESPN used in the Penn State case, and in other similar moral panics, that this type of behavior from their female reporters was systematic and essentially approved of by ESPN as a effectively a legitimatized (or at least somewhat accepted) “journalistic” practice.
While there has been some effort by sports news outlets to force ESPN to act responsibly here, there has not yet been nearly enough to force action. ESPN must be held to their own standards of evaluation and accountability in these types of situations.
But since the news media in general, and the sports media in particular, are currently completely broken, I won’t be holding my breath for this to actually happen.
WWE releasing Aleister Black, Zelina Vega, Kairi Sane and the Motor City Machine Guns is actual headass shit... How do you fumble these five's talent that badly?
Wasn't really paying attention to Mania (currently despairing over a corrupted Voice Memo I recorded on my phone... Apple, what have you done to me)... Seemed like it went better than last night. Saw the main event in full, very good, didn't quite reach the heights of 2 years ago
NFL Network has obtained the police report on the misdemeanor charges against Zachariah Branch, who was arrested while standing on a public sidewalk for not moving far enough when a police officer asked him to move:
“A male, later identified as Zacharia Branch, continued to stand on the sidewalk without making an attempt to move. I continued to give Zacharia Branch verbal commands to move from blocking the sidewalk and advised that if he did not, he would receive a citation for blocking the sidewalk. Zacharia Branch smirked, then stepped backwards and to the right, then remained standing upon the public sidewalk, so as to obstruct, hinder, and impede free passage upon the sidewalk as well as impede free ingress/egress to or from the adjacent places of business. Due to those actions and Zacharia Branch’s failure to comply with multiple verbal lawful commands, he was placed under arrest for misdemeanor Obstruction of LEO and received a citation for Obstructing Public Sidewalks.”
@SamMonsonNFL Unfortunately, the Raiders were an absolute mess at the time, and Moss checked out pretty quick, so I guess it was a waste for both teams.
I thankfully did not have the misfortune others had of having to watch clips from the Hulk Hogan documentary during Mania breaks... I instead had to continually refresh my ESPN feed because it kept freezing during ads.
Maybe next year, @DanhausenAD! 😂
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