LOL! 2014: A great year for sports

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Maybe this local paper should have just gone with whatever the Associated Press sent along with this article. This takes the cake.

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  • 12/29/2014 at 10:39 AM #67256
    StateFans
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    Maybe this local paper should have just gone with whatever the Associated Press sent along with this article. This takes the cake. Ummmm… pic.twitte
    [See the full post at: LOL! 2014: A great year for sports]

    12/29/2014 at 8:10 PM #67296
    john of sparta
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    it’s trending…sports is entertainment and entertainment is sports.
    Housewives of Haw River, it’s a Hard Knocks life, and the Manziel Report.
    bottom line: no longer about wins/losses. 49’ers proved that.

    12/29/2014 at 9:20 PM #67300
    Alpha Wolf
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    Sports and entertainment have definitely merged. I guess they were never different, really, because sports have always been a reality drama with an uncertain outcome. The real difference between today and 50 or even 500 years ago is that the circus is now 24/7 on not just on fields and in arenas. ESPN and other mass media in the satellite age have seen to that.

    Me, I don’t watch a lot of the secondary crap. The only time I really paid attention was when Tiger Woods’ activities were discovered because I thought it not only revealed him to be what he is (a jerk, I’ve met him several times) but also a sometimes shady competitor. If you think he didn’t know he was bending the rules in the Masters, for example, I have a bridge aside Manhattan I’d like to sell you.

    12/30/2014 at 1:54 AM #67311
    ancsu87
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    I think this speaks more about our current educational system from top to bottom including those really really hard journalism schools that teach independent thinking, fact verification and making a story fit the facts not make-up the facts to fit your own story. I mean you UNC-CH of the inflated GPA. LMAO.

    12/30/2014 at 2:39 AM #67312
    wufpup76
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    ancsu87 wrote:

    I think this speaks more about our current educational system from top to bottom including those really really hard journalism schools that teach independent thinking, fact verification and making a story fit the facts not make-up the facts to fit your own story. I mean you UNC-CH of the inflated GPA. LMAO.

    The headline is unfortunate and lazy, but to your specific point it never ceases to amaze me how ‘groupthink’ and clickbait narrative-driven, agenda pushing story-telling is held up as academia or journalism now.

    By all means, don’t respect your audience or consumers by giving them the facts and letting them decide things for themselves … individuals are stoopid and must be ‘led’ to the ‘correct’ conclusion. FFS.

    12/30/2014 at 6:24 AM #67314
    Alpha Wolf
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    I think this speaks more about our current educational system from top to bottom including those really really hard journalism schools that teach independent thinking, fact verification and making a story fit the facts not make-up the facts to fit your own story.

    These days, journalism comes in two flavors: Sensationalized or Partisan. And often the flavors are mixed together.

    The blame for that lies with the mass media companies. For decades, news was a loss leader for the likes of the three major networks and their radio counterparts. They knew it wasn’t going to be a profit center, but instead, a prestige center. Then, one of them (I believe it was ABC) decided to merge their news and entertainment divisions and make their news profitable. That meant it had to be entertaining. Enter in the requirement for sensationalized journalism. See Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry” for more information:

    We can do the innuendo, we can dance and sing
    When it’s said and done, we haven’t told you a thing
    We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry

    Then along came cable news, and their partisan alignments. Fox for Republicans, MSNBC for Democrats, CNN for idiots. Everything that those networks report is filtered through the lens of their particular political dogma. One, for example is now claiming that $2 a gallon gas is bad for America after saying $4 a gallon gas was bankrupting the country only 18 months ago. It’s hysterical at best, but in reality it is simply everything being political to that network. Everything. And all they do is Partisan Journalism, period.

    Neither of those things can be blamed on any college. They don’t teach that in J-School. The graduates learn it, however, when they go to work. They have to if they want to keep their jobs. Journalists are like everyone else…they learn what they learn in college, but when they get their jobs, they find that what they were taught at their alma mater ain’t how it works in the real world.

    12/30/2014 at 6:28 AM #67315
    bill.onthebeach
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    ^JofS…

    Let’s not make fun of “Haw River”…

    It actually has real fish swimming in it now…
    and back in it’s “rainbow” days…that wasn’t always the case…

    #NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!
    12/30/2014 at 10:03 AM #67318
    PackerInRussia
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    ^^ I was listening to an interview with Cal Thomas (no matter your political affiliation, he’s been around the block a few times and has a voice of experience even if you don’t agree with what that voice says) a while back and he was talking about that very thing. He was talking about the days when he was getting going in journalism and how they were told to just report the news. They (the news-side) weren’t depended on for revenue, so they could just focus on getting the story right and focusing on the facts no matter where they led. Entertainment was entertainment and news was news. Then, that philosophy changed and suddenly news was looked to to help drive profit and entertainment and news were wed and it hasn’t been the same since.

    12/30/2014 at 11:53 PM #67486
    ancsu87
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    Alpha Wolf wrote:

    These days, journalism comes in two flavors: Sensationalized or Partisan. And often the flavors are mixed together.

    The blame for that lies with the mass media companies. For decades, news was a loss leader for the likes of the three major networks and their radio counterparts. They knew it wasn’t going to be a profit center, but instead, a prestige center. Then, one of them (I believe it was ABC) decided to merge their news and entertainment divisions and make their news profitable. That meant it had to be entertaining. Enter in the requirement for sensationalized journalism. See Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry” for more information:

    We can do the innuendo, we can dance and sing<br>
    When it’s said and done, we haven’t told you a thing<br>
    We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry

    Then along came cable news, and their partisan alignments. Fox for Republicans, MSNBC for Democrats, CNN for idiots. Everything that those networks report is filtered through the lens of their particular political dogma. One, for example is now claiming that $2 a gallon gas is bad for America after saying $4 a gallon gas was bankrupting the country only 18 months ago. It’s hysterical at best, but in reality it is simply everything being political to that network. Everything. And all they do is Partisan Journalism, period.

    Neither of those things can be blamed on any college. They don’t teach that in J-School. The graduates learn it, however, when they go to work. They have to if they want to keep their jobs. Journalists are like everyone else…they learn what they learn in college, but when they get their jobs, they find that what they were taught at their alma mater ain’t how it works in the real world.

    I agree with you on the merger of news and entertainment but I cannot agree that they teach investigative news versus “entertainment and partisam journalism”. We certainly have forgot to teach independent thinking and being responsible for yourself. You just have to interview new graduates to see this clearly.

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