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You boys take your man crush seriously, don't you? Someone called me a liar, and an hour on the internet proved them wrong. Time well spent. Stalking? I didn't take the pictures, just found them. Rather easily. Handle little thing called google, you boys might want to try it sometime...
I obviously don't come to this fansite often, especially the message board. I heard that there was some organized effort to boycott one of my favorite print authors, who had had the gall to write material not dripping in kool-aid, so I checked. Farinella isn't one of my favorites, but he's local and he's a print writer. In case you haven't looked up from your keyboards lately, those people are starting to disappear in NE. Giving his article more attention due to the tabloid-oriented comments cannot accomplish anything positive. At worst, it would get him fired/disciplined, which just means less (or more watered-down) local coverage. At best, it increases his numbers sufficiently that he add more celebrity journalism where there is supposed to be sports coverage. Mid-November he'll be writing about what a role-model Brady is for your children, just to earn the ire of the parents who read the article.
Due to the numbers of fans turning to sites like this, we'll soon have a mixture of the AP and bloggers-only covering sports. Print journalists still have a job to do, especially locally. From McGuire's andro (first covered by a reporter for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, I believe) to the book on Bond written by the San Francisco area writers who literally dug through trash, local reporters serve an important function.
The fact that BB and company get by with the reputation for having the most secretive media relations in the NFL says something already about the local media. No wonder I first heard about Walsh from ESPN, if Farinella gets roasted just for making a little fun of an obvious (see my previous post) tabloid celebrity.
As for hating Brady, what does his tabloid coverage have to do with hate? He's always been this way, it's just a little more obvious now. He could impregnate the entire victoria's secret line up and it wouldn't effect his game one bit. Off the field, yes, he's a bit sketchy for my tastes, but that's the way he's always been. Relax, you teenager girls act like I just insulted your favorite boy-bander.
I obviously don't come to this fansite often, especially the message board. I heard that there was some organized effort to boycott one of my favorite print authors, who had had the gall to write material not dripping in kool-aid, so I checked. Farinella isn't one of my favorites, but he's local and he's a print writer. In case you haven't looked up from your keyboards lately, those people are starting to disappear in NE. Giving his article more attention due to the tabloid-oriented comments cannot accomplish anything positive. At worst, it would get him fired/disciplined, which just means less (or more watered-down) local coverage. At best, it increases his numbers sufficiently that he add more celebrity journalism where there is supposed to be sports coverage. Mid-November he'll be writing about what a role-model Brady is for your children, just to earn the ire of the parents who read the article.
Due to the numbers of fans turning to sites like this, we'll soon have a mixture of the AP and bloggers-only covering sports. Print journalists still have a job to do, especially locally. From McGuire's andro (first covered by a reporter for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, I believe) to the book on Bond written by the San Francisco area writers who literally dug through trash, local reporters serve an important function.
The fact that BB and company get by with the reputation for having the most secretive media relations in the NFL says something already about the local media. No wonder I first heard about Walsh from ESPN, if Farinella gets roasted just for making a little fun of an obvious (see my previous post) tabloid celebrity.
As for hating Brady, what does his tabloid coverage have to do with hate? He's always been this way, it's just a little more obvious now. He could impregnate the entire victoria's secret line up and it wouldn't effect his game one bit. Off the field, yes, he's a bit sketchy for my tastes, but that's the way he's always been. Relax, you teenager girls act like I just insulted your favorite boy-bander.
