Lack of transparency on Deflategate made journalism tougher to judge

Ross12 said:

I found this section at the end funny:

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That's a really good example of what should have been at the end of Naqi's article.

"My husband is a former league office employee who still works directly with NFL executives, so all this crap you see here obviously came from him/them. I'm not married to Tom Brady, so you can't expect me to honestly reflect his side of things.

I avoid ESPN, however am a fan of Mike Reiss.. so I do not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Just about everything else I could give two ****s about..

In the lengthy, navel-gazing mea culpa, Jim Brady never puts it as bluntly as he should have: Someone at the league accidentally or deliberately misrepresented facts to ESPN, the NFL never corrected the information, and ESPN both clumsily tried to ignore the fact that the information was false and stubbornly doubled down on the notion that the information was substantially accurate.

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ESPN public editor acknowledges #Deflategate “missteps”

I didn't even bother to read it. They are seeking forgiveness from fans and other networks, who, these days, refer to them as the National Enquirer of sports news. They want to be respected again and I will never respect the corrupt media after this deflategate BS, ever again. Even if I could let the false report of 11 of 12 go, I can't get over the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months that ESPN, and other "news" networks, wasted trying to tarnish Brady's legacy and reputation as the GOAT, using hasbeens, neverwases, bitter losers and journalists willing to do anything to get a full-time job to put their slant on a BIG "news story." I'm not even going to sit here and act like ESPN was the only network pulling this BS, because most of the networks were guilty of it. They were spewing their BS and hatred, while brainwashing the public with half-truths and one-sided biased opinions, especially when the Wells-Report came out. None of these "journalists" from any reputable paper or network took the time to read the report. They read the opening paragraph and the conclusion, and therefore went along brainwashing the republic that Brady was "more probable than not" guilty of deflating balls. The media, not just ESPN, and not only sports media, but all kinds of media went out of their way to highlight text messages from the ball boys, in order to validate their reports. 11 of 12 was completely irrelevant at that point. The ones who were defending Brady had smaller platforms, they were just bloggers, or radio guys with a smaller audience, most likely limited to the New England area, because not one person defended Brady on my local stations. I'll give the Washington Post their props though. I'm not sure if they defended Brady because they believed in journalistic integrity or if they did it to get some exclusive scoop from Brady and his agent. Who knows.

But I could care less about the media now. I don't even trust them at this point. Everybody has an agenda. No-one will ever know the truth, because it's what's best for business. They all deserve to burn and be replaced with ambitious losers who got rich overnight blogging about the latest happenings. They lack integrity too, but their crap is no different than the BS, I've seen in the media these days. Hopefully, the news will go back to reporting the news and not the opinions of people with clear agendas. I guess in a land where man worships the mighty dollar, that just ain't gonna be possible. Sad.

Amen brother!

Read the comments section if you want to click on BSPN. I try to avoid it but had to this time.

A half -hearted attempt to take a minimal (microscopically so) amount of responsibility for journalistic malpractice. It was self-serving and intellectually dishonest piece, much like ESPN itself.

DarrylS said:

I avoid ESPN, however am a fan of Mike Reiss.. so I do not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Just about everything else I could give two ****s about..

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Schefter has on the whole acquitted himself well through all this.

So of course has Bruschi.

fair catch fryar said:

You need to let posters know that this is an ESPN article before they click on it. I did and immediately deleted it. I will not read or visit anything there until they retract and fully apologize for their outright lies and handling of deflategate.

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I have found that if I read a couple of posts after the link I will find out if it's a link to BSPN. I can then continue to ignore that link when I find out. If it's a link to anything else I go back and read it. It's a very good strategy to avoid giving BSPN any clicks at all.

Ivan said:

Nothing ESPN does will get me to tune them back in.

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I'm pleasantly surprised that I don't miss them at all. I thought that I might.

DarrylS said:

I avoid ESPN, however am a fan of Mike Reiss.. so I do not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Just about everything else I could give two ****s about..

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I throw out EVERYTHING. In every war there are casualties.

They smell rumblings of a defamation suit IMO

1960Pats said:

I have found that if I read a couple of posts after the link I will find out if it's a link to BSPN. I can then continue to ignore that link when I find out. If it's a link to anything else I go back and read it. It's a very good strategy to avoid giving BSPN any clicks at all.

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Me too, but unfortunately, I clicked on it as soon as he posted it.