OT: Barstool media-cred Cancelled by GotoHell

[Gumby]

and the authoritarian decisions by a weasel with no integrity or sense of humor continue . . .

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/01/31/nfl-pulls-credentials-from-barstool-sports/

Barstool Sports is a growing destination for sports fans, particularly young and male sports fans, and on Monday it officially became mainstream when it launched a new show on Comedy Central. But the NFL does not find Barstool Sports amusing.

The league pulled Super Bowl week credentials from Barstool Sports employees, forcing them to cancel scheduled appearances on Radio Row, including a planned spot on PFT Live today.

Be interesting to see what if any (my expectation =0) response their fellow mediots make.

 

[rochrist]

Eh. That place is a cesspool. That's the place that printed the photos of Tom's naked son a few years ago along with comments about the size of his penis, as well as pictures of Giselle when the family was on vacation in Chile.

**** em. They're trash.

 

[IcyPatriot]

Ordinarily I might be mad but Barstool has become a joke ... so who cares.

Emergency Press Conference – Goodell Bans Barstool

Best comment:

by ahmadbradshaw on January 31st 2017, 11:06 pm
Never go near the camera right after railing a line, ************ clean it up

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

Barstool is the epitome of frat-bro douche coverage.

 

[luuked]

The joke is that they had media credentials in the first place...

 

[Jackson 2]

I won't shed any tears for an outfit that matches Goodell's arrogance and sense of entitlement. Their support of Brady in DG is appreciated, but on the whole, they've proven themselves to be ***holes, in my opinion.

 

[dafoe2016]

This is some really disturbing ****. It's okay for a corporate entity to bully and attempt to silence media as long as you don't like that media outlet? That's not what America is about.

 

[DarrylS]

This is the new "normal" in America, if you do not like the news source exclude them..

All this has done is create more attention for Bar Stool, any publicity is good publicity in that world...

A better choice would be to include them and give them an obscure spot on Radio Row and ignore them..

 

[PP2]

The good thing about all this is that it proves that Goodell is easily butthurt.

So despite what he says or acts like, this coming Sunday, we know for a fact that deep down, when he hands over that trophy to us, he really is butthurt.

 

[jah]

That site is like Bleacher Report for alcoholic Bostonians. How did they get the credential at all?

 

[archstanton543]

This is the new "normal" in America, if you do not like the news source exclude them..

It's their event. They can exclude whoever they want. That goes for public press conferences too. Hey, at least it's better than ol' Honest Abe back in his day when he locked up editors and writers who weren't keen on the whole Civil War thing with no charges.

 

[Fixit]

If Barstool actually respected its status as "media" they'd still have credentials. As it is, all they do is stupid frat douche stuff and disrupt everybody else.

Sometimes it's not about censorship, it's about an outlet not being grown up enough to have something in the first place. It's like yelling "Second Amendment!" when someone's taking a gun away from a toddler.

 

[DarrylS]

It's their event. They can exclude whoever they want. That goes for public press conferences too. .

You missed the point, their exclusion has created more press than if they were included.. inow no one would care, instead they get a bunch of free publicity..

Give them an obscure location, and if they whine about that they would lose..

 

[archstanton543]

You missed the point, their exclusion has created more press than if they were included.. inow no one would care, instead they get a bunch of free publicity..

Give them an obscure location, and if they whine about that they would lose..

Eh, whatever. Remember the saying, there's no such thing as bad press.

 

[RobertWeathers]

It's their event. They can exclude whoever they want. That goes for public press conferences too. Hey, at least it's better than ol' Honest Abe back in his day when he locked up editors and writers who weren't keen on the whole Civil War thing with no charges.

Suspicion of treason was the charge.

 

[archstanton543]

Suspicion of treason was the charge.

Right but voicing your anti-war opinion is protected under the First Amendment.

 

[luuked]

This is some really disturbing ****. It's okay for a corporate entity to bully and attempt to silence media as long as you don't like that media outlet? That's not what America is about.

I'd be concerned if that actually would happen to a legit media organization that employs people who are real journalists. I can't give less of a **** what happens to lazy bloggers.

 

[Fixit]

I'd be concerned if that actually would happen to a legit media organization that employs people who are real journalists. I can't give less of a **** what happens to lazy bloggers.

Exactly. If Goodell had barred, say, all Boston media, that'd be alarming. This is like removing a drunk boisterous ******* from a theater.

 

[ALP]

I'd be concerned if that actually would happen to a legit media organization that employs people who are real journalists. I can't give less of a **** what happens to lazy bloggers.

must not be paying any attention to the white house recently!

(and now i leave the political spectrum aside for fear of derailing thread, if anyone does respond to this, i can pre emptively assure you i will not see/reply to it...thanks)

 

[luuked]

must not be paying any attention to the white house recently!

(and now i leave the political spectrum aside for fear of derailing thread, if anyone does respond to this, i can pre emptively assure you i will not see/reply to it...thanks)

Guess I was too subtle... my first edit had CNN as an example but I thought it was obvious enough without making it explicit..