…hegemony with the sheen of truth-telling, almost scientific objectivism. The current format of debate shows has its drawbacks, especially in the conversation of truth, but at least it offers a colorful listing of opinions to choose from instead of spoon fed half-truths.
Many reasons for this, but the main one is that the Walter Cronkite figure (and their monologues), which to some represent objectivism and to others represent hegemony, is untrustworthy. Costas’ take here is a good example as to why: whiny, wrong, drenched in fearful conservatism
As post-internet, post-9/11 viewers began to understand that we did indeed lose Vietnam, and that the police are perhaps not the beacon of protection that was promised, the Cronkite mold that sold these ideas has become less and less trustworthy since that archetype sells…
@SluggaSports The product is absolutely watered down, but that’s because post-internet viewers look for the opinions of those they see as somewhat equal viewers instead of truth tellers from the mountain. Largely because most of these truths were simply hegemony with the sheen of objectivism.
@SluggaSports Partially agree with this, and tweeted about this b4 I saw your tweet, but there’s also the fact that the single pundit approach has been necessarily understood as script-written hegemony and not objective truth. Now what’s emphasized is multi-sourced opinions, better and worse
We really grabbed onto “Shams sends a lot of texts!” And not “holy shit he helps players gets screwed in negotiations to keep the access going.” https://t.co/EtJeoEh5TK
Check out the latest episode of the @UpUnderPodcast1! We’re back from hibernation and can’t wait to put these out on a much more consistent basis with the NBA season gearing up.
Thank you for all the support!
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I can’t tell if anyone who complains and whines about this is a big baby or if this hyper-commodification of the self is a really dark sign under a capitalist system speeding towards failure, it’s probably a tiny bit of both and somewhere in between though
The Kelce social media growth train keeps rolling. In the past seven days, Travis Kelce has gained over 330,000 Instagram followers; the next closest player is Jason Kelce with over 115,000, then Patrick Mahomes with over 48,000, per @bknown_ . Since the Bears-Chiefs game ended, Kelce has gained 1.1 million Instagram followers, whereas many NFL players don’t have 1.1M total. Even the Chiefs’ Instagram has gained over 180,000 followers in that same period – almost 4x more than any other NFL team, with the Eagles being in second at over 48,000.
NBA players have shot themselves in the foot by buying into capitalism, treating themselves as a brand and buying into a losing arms race against billionaires. It’s not jrue’s fault at all, but more outrightly pro-employee and anti-individualist unions could limit this