Do you also hate Belichick and Brady as liars? They say diplomatic things they don't mean all the time ... and I don't have a problem with that at all.
You've
got to be kidding.
01 ~ First off: Suggesting that Coach Belichick and Brady are
lying when they express Respect for their Opponents is
itself disgustingly dishonest. They clearly understand as well as anyone does that the line between Dominance and Mediocrity is far thinner than most seem to think: Even the worst Team in the League is comprised of some of the best Players in the World, and the adage that any Team can beat any other Team on a given Sunday has been proven over and over again. Coach Belichick, Brady, and this Team have quite evidently approached every Game for the last 15 Years with a
Super Bowl level of Intensity, Focus, and Preparation simply because they
genuinely respect the capabilities of other Teams, and therefore fully understand the dire Consequences of
failing to sustain that level of Intensity and Preparation.
02 ~ But drawing such a comparison between FootBall and Journalism is ludicrous in the first place. FootBall is a means ~ as are all Sports, though FootBall, especially ~ of satisfying our Primal Instinct to Make War on our Rivals with a minimum of Bloodshed. And all War ~ as Sun Tzu actually
did write, unlike that "every Battle is won before it's fought" sewage that he
never wrote ~ is Deception. One does not divulge any more Information than one has to to one's Foes, unless one is a drooling Idiot.
That should be obvious.
03 ~ Journalists, on the other hand, have a far different Responsibility, though many vermin ignore it:
Truth. Whereas the
protection of Secrets is a vital part of Coach Belichick's and Tom Brady's Jobs, the
polar opposite is true of Journalists: The
core Purpose of Journalism ~ that which has rendered a few of its members genuinely Noble over the Years ~ is to investigate, seek out, and divulge
News. To share Opinions, by all means, and to do so, hopefully, in an entertaining and engaging way...But above all to seek out the
Truth, and to share it with the Public, loudly and proudly. A
real Journalist
ferrets out Liars and Thieves and exposes their rancid Infamy to the Public so that we can all see the Truth. That, my friends...is
Journalism.
The fact that
most members of the Media are Whores who abjure this Sacred Responsibility for Money and Power makes them no less despicable...nor the Responsibility they abjure any less Sacred.