Keeping in mind that a) I'm not a fan of Notre Dame athletic teams, and b) I think college football is a business like Wal-Mart or GM and not an actual sport (everybody who thinks Alabama is the national champion, raise your hand! we have a winner: the Crimson Tide! yippee!)...
...does it bother anyone else that American journalists can dig deep and find that some college's superstar linebacker has an imaginary dead girlfriend, but were completely clueless when it came to the "weapons of mass destruction" that led to a war that cost thousands of American lives and nearly wrecked our economy? Or completely missing all the warning signs that our economy was a shell game before it collapsed?
Somewhere along the way our priorities got awfully fucked up.
Peace,
emaycee
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To be fair, the national, mainstream media bought into the bullshit story of that college football player, just like they did with WMDs. Actually, it was Deadspin who broke the story (http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax). Deadspin, as you might recall, is who Buzz Bissinger--"real journalist" and bigger boner than Dirk Digler's weiner after a lap dance--once said were bloggers who were "dedicated to journalistic dishonesty" (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/04/buzz_bissinger_goes_nuts_on_de_1.html).
ReplyDeleteSo don't give them too much credit for digging up a damn thing. The majority of sports journalists, as you well know, couldn't dig up a story on steroids in 1998. Just like then, they're acting like it is shocking news. They loved the heroic college star who had suffered so much loss, just like they loved the cancer survivor who could cycle better than anyone. Now, they'll vilify both, as if they weren't complicit in the whole thing.
Don't give them an ounce of credit. They fucked up WMDs. They fucked up steroids. They fucked up Manti Te'o. And they'll continue to fuck up every damn thing they can.