Reiss finally snaps (a bit)

[JoeSixPat]

Mike Reiss Rants on Negativity, Legacies and Anger

Tom Brady

5 Super Bowls in 10 years. 3 victories, 2 narrow losses.

2 passes. One caught by Tyree. One dropped by Welker (and a difficult pass to catch at that).

If the first is dropped and the second is caught, Brady is the GOAT and not the goat.

What is wrong with the majority of the sports media, aside from Reiss, that nearly all the fans can recognize this and they'd cannot?

 

[Joker]

Tom Brady

5 Super Bowls in 10 years. 3 victories, 2 narrow losses.

2 passes. One caught by Tyree. One dropped by Welker (and a difficult pass to catch at that).

If the first is dropped and the second is caught, Brady is the GOAT and not the goat.

What is wrong with the majority of the sports media, aside from Reiss, that nearly all the fans can recognize this and they'd cannot?

what's wrong???...well...let's take a look...

 

[tuckeverlasting]

what's wrong???...well...let's take a look...

ah, yes, good ol' woody paige. haven't seen or heard from him in about 15 yrs. so nice not watchin' or hearin' his nonsense. my brain don't hurt no more.

 

[borg]

I appreciate all the hard work Mike puts in and content he provides. He is my go to info source for Pats news. My problem is that his content is too often sandwiched between all the ESPN fluff. "See the experts picks." "Watch the experts breakdown the Pats." "Skip Bayless debates Pats legacy." etc etc etc. Unfortunately, to get to Mike's excellent coverage, you have to sort through ESPN's manufactured drama and hype. ESPN BOSTON is becoming a media vehicle designed to promote the greater ESPN ambitions. Pats info is getting lost inside the tentacles of ESPN's garbage content.
I hate ESPN. I do everything possible to avoid that network, that website, and their selfsatisfying dramas that get played out indefinitely. Between Spygate, Favre, and the Tebow coverage...they lost me. I just hope Mike defends his turf and limits the filler that too often gets stuffed next to his excellent coverage.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Mike Reiss Rants on Negativity, Legacies and Anger

It's disingenuous for any mediots, even Reiss who is among the best of the lot, to claim, at this late date, just now to be concerned about the fact that the primary objective and measuring rod of the media today is "clicks" and viewers. "Come on Man!"

That reminds me of the line in Casablanca where Captain Renault says he is "shocked, shocked" to discover that gambling is going on at Rick's Cafe.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Tom Brady

5 Super Bowls in 10 years. 3 victories, 2 narrow losses.

2 passes. One caught by Tyree. One dropped by Welker (and a difficult pass to catch at that).

If the first is dropped and the second is caught, Brady is the GOAT and not the goat.

What is wrong with the majority of the sports media, aside from Reiss, that nearly all the fans can recognize this and they'd cannot?

It makes me as angry as it does any Pats fan, but I'm afraid the answer is something like:

"Because maybe if Scott Norwood's kick doesn't go 'Wide Right' in SB XXV then maybe the Bills approach SB XXVI with a different attitude and beat the immortal Mark Rypien and the Washington Redskins, giving Jim Kelly at least two consecutive SB rings while taking the Bills to four in a row, something that no team has ever done, and people are talking about him as the GOAT today."

In other words, there are dozens of woulda, shoulda, coulda's around the NFL (just ask the Raiders or Rams). In the end, what counts is the score.

 

[sevengables_2207]

Way to go, Mike!

I, like most of my fellow posters here, have echoed those sentiments for the past few years. The media has been grading from reporting news to sensationalizing and scrutinizing every morsel of detail, seemingly conjuring histrionics and drama out of thin air.

Glad a member of the media whose work I respect put his two cents in!

 

[sevengables_2207]

It's disingenuous for any mediots, even Reiss who is among the best of the lot, to claim, at this late date, just now to be concerned about the fact that the primary objective and measuring rod of the media today is "clicks" and viewers. "Come on Man!"

That reminds me of the line in Casablanca where Captain Renault says he is "shocked, shocked" to discover that gambling is going on at Rick's Cafe.

I don't think he is being disingenuous. IMO, Reiss has simply let his frustration spill over a bit. Methinks it has been building for some time.

BTW.. Though I feel it is spurious, I liked the analogy to Cpt. Renault in Casablanca.

 

[DEVIOUS 1]

What Mike is saying is correct. Journalism as a whole is a cesspool. Major Journalism networks have the power to sway public perception and use that influence to suite there agendas.

If it gets more clicks and advertising dollars to paint the public perception of the Patriots as an evil, cold blooded organization, then thats what they do. Whatever is best for them. Plus, they play favorites. If you are more accessable to them, you get more favorable coverage ( I'm looking at you Brett Favre).

Thats why the media can spin Brady's recent uneven play in the post season, and deem him over rated, but completely gloss over and excuse Peyton Mannings sub .500 post season numbers, and still call him one of the best ever.

This is why I laugh when the subject of access the Patriots grant to the media becomes a point of contention to the members complaining about it. Cause they always try to spin their dissatisfaction on us, claiming the Patriots are doing US a disservice since they are the "voice of the fan".

Bullspit! They are the voice of themselves! And every self serving agenda they bring to work everyday.

Todays media are many things......But the word "Professional" is one that not many can still claim.

 

[TomPatriot]

… I’m not perfect, but when I see a company soliciting publicity for dropping a boatload of Butterfingers in Boston and thanking Wes Welker for his drop — and then some report on it to give that company exactly what they want (publicity) — it makes me shake my head. What are we doing here?

Selling.

 

[AzPatsFan]

Todays media are many things......But the word "Professional" is one that not many can still claim.

Sure they can. Prostitutes distnguish themselves from whores by calling thmselves "professionals". So can mediots, since they are in the same business of selling themselves for money.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Mike Reiss is the Tom Brady of journalism.