Beware the sports media, they strike again. :rolleyes:

God this story pissed me off and it has NOTHING to do with what your politics are , or your ideology, or your hot button issues. This headline and the following story shows off the WORST what the ******* sports media does to us on a consistent......and maybe the media as a whole.

First they make up as story “reportedly” stating that Tom Brady (among others) would be speaking . Now this is based on NOTHING but speculation. They do this without ever even asking Brady (or the others if the story is true). However it gets repeated by other sources (like PFT) and pretty soon it’s getting reported as FACT.

THEN the jackholes in the media have something to comment on for the next week or so, and the haters and supporters on both sides wade in with their comments and the whole things runs it course.

NOW, a few weeks later comes the equally made up story that Brady ISN’T going to speak at the convention and once again it gets picked up by the media and the whole cycle starts again. By the time I read the story it had over 60 responses

When are we going to stop being click bait for a self centered media who think THEY are the most important people in sports. When are we going to stop being the fools who fall for this tactic time and time again. (the most recent example was Volin's unsupported pure speculation that Lombardi was forced out by the Pats even though BB was in his corner).

Are there really THAT many stupid people out there who will constantly fall this this purely self serving tactic, and begs a bigger question for @Ian. Why the F is Volin's social media link STILL running at the top of our forum page? What does that idiot have to do before he gets "banned"?

If TMZ retweets an Incarcerated Bob tweet that counts as confirmation.

patfanken said:

When are we going to stop being click bait for a self centered media who think THEY are the most important people in sports.

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Spot on.. the media really do view themselves as bigger than the game and athletes themselves.. IMO, it takes a very strange individual to even get into that kind of "journalism", but its become the standard these days to just spout off to build up twitter followers and get more clicks..

Its flat out disgusting, and just about everyone in the media is guilty of it on some level.. some obviously being bigger pieces of garbage than others, without any shame whatsoever

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Are there really THAT many stupid people out there who will constantly fall this this purely self serving tactic

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Answer: Yes

The Globe sucks.

By the way, not to defend click-bait articles, but just to play devil's advocate because it could be an interesting discussion -- what is your proposed alternative for how the media should behave?

Click-bait generates profit. Should all media just agree to thoughtfully report on content only if there is substance behind it? Doubt that would ever happen. Should there be some sort of regulatory oversight about what can get published? Sounds like there would be riots over that proposal. Can there ever be a large enough societal movement that we all agree to stop clicking on these types of things? Given that we can't even get Pats fans to stop clicking on ESPN articles, that seems impossible.

I think click-bait articles aren't going away any time soon, it's a product of the society we live in and also how blazingly fast the media landscape has shifted over the past fifteen years. The only thing we can do is avoid them or see through them and laugh at them -- by the way, the whole previous South Park season was a commentary on how sinister they are, worth checking out.

Make America Great Again

The only relevant part of this story is that Brady is not going.

The sports mediots are great at creating strawman, half their shows are based upon strawman arguments (see felger).

I use the Herald as a cat box liner...just to figuratively make sure they get shyt on every day

Joker said:

I use the Herald as a cat box liner...just to figuratively make sure they get shyt on every day

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Ever notice how no one in the media ever, ever mentions Tomase and this monumental f###job? In fact, none of them ever mention the latter at all. He's all over WEEI weekend shows, he's on Comcast from time to time and it's NEVER mentioned. The Patriots loss in that weekend's game is mentioned all the time. Funny about that...

I think the solution is pretty simple. When you notice a pattern like this occurring, take note of who's engaging in it. If a source does it with anything resembling regularity, you just black out that source. Stop giving it clicks, stop listening to anything it says, and anytime anyone tries to introduce it into a discussion point out why you assign no credibility to it.

There really isn't anything any of us can do beyond that.

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Ever notice how no one in the media ever, ever mentions Tomase and this monumental f###job? In fact, none of them ever mention the latter at all. He's all over WEEI weekend shows, he's on Comcast from time to time and it's NEVER mentioned. The Patriots loss in that weekend's game is mentioned all the time. Funny about that...

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He joins the Red Sox radio announcers in the broadcast booth every so often. It's horrible. I have a visceral reaction when they say his name.

Jackson 2 said:

Ever notice how no one in the media ever, ever mentions Tomase and this monumental f###job? In fact, none of them ever mention the latter at all. He's all over WEEI weekend shows, he's on Comcast from time to time and it's NEVER mentioned. The Patriots loss in that weekend's game is mentioned all the time. Funny about that...

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No one circles the wagons better than the sports media. Tomase and Borges committed 2 of the biggest mistakes a journalist can make without any lasting consequences. For Borges, there was a 15 month gap between him leaving the Globe and joining the Herald, but Tomase kept covering the Patriots until the summer of 2008 when he moved to the Red Sox beat. I'm not saying it was realistic to expect them to be kicked out of the profession, but we can't even say they resurrected their careers in Oklahoma, Florida, Michigan, California, etc. They stayed here and, for the most part, kept doing what they had been doing.

I'm not sure what a comparable error would be for a coach or player, but I can guarantee the media wouldn't totally bury it like they've done for their fellows. On the contrary, that issue would be brought up on a semi-regular basis. Not directly, at least not very often, but referenced in some "clever" way.

patfanken said:

When are we going to stop being click bait for a self centered media who think THEY are the most important people in sports.

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WHEN, WHEN you ask??! Well, when we stop winning, that's when. That's when the Patriots will become "irrelevant" to the sports media, because at that point "conventional wisdom" will assume that because the Patriots are losing, there isn't a reason to cover them unless they have a player who drinks and does drugs constantly (Browns), a player who hits and abuses women (Cowboys) or a celebrity buys a certain share of the team (Dolphins). That's the era we live in. If it bleeds, it leads. If it smells, it sells. If it sucks, it f....well, you get the idea.

actually, Twomassive COULD be a real life Flounder........

Joker said:

actually, Twomassive COULD be a real life Flounder........

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This is just uncanny...too close of a resemblance.. I say, henceforth that this fellow be referred to as Flounder!

363839 said:

This is just uncanny...too close of a resemblance.. I say, henceforth that this fellow be referred to as Flounder!

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What did Flounder ever do to you that you'd insult his character so?