I predicted way back on page one of this long road of journalistic frustration, that this full of ***** story would BECOME the story. And low and behold, every sports broadcast tonight led with the report that there IS some issues between the Pats and Gronk on his injury. NOT that there are possible issue, or reported issues. It was that there ARE issues.
Think about it. Who is the source. Here are a list of people it would be
BB, Caserio, the TE coach, the Doctor, the trainer, and Gronk.
These are the ONLY people who really know whats going on. Who amongst that group would tell the likes of Jeff Howe a story that could possible damage the team, cause a distraction the day before a game, and oh btw, risk losing their job. The answer is no one.
Kt was all made up speculation from the get go, and in the end that's all it was. Here's what gets my goat though. Jeff how makes up a story. He get quoted on multiple media outlets. His profile is upgraded, yet in the end when his pure speculation is PROVEN to be full of crap, there are NO consequences fro Howe.
These so called arbiters of virtue are free to judge others so publicly are so rarely held accountable that there is no reason for them to stop publishing more of the same crap down the road. In fact its just the OPPOSITE. Making it up as you go along is constantly rewarded.
And if you question it, you are labelled a "homer", or team mouthpiece, etc. Just look what happen to Volin when he dared question the journalistic ethics of the reporting in the infamous Rolling Stone article.l He was crushed by his own hypocritical brethren.
.....and so ends another early morning rant.
