Ryan Schultz ... the Catfishing Sports Writer

Absolutely amazing the lack of background work and self-checking today's media does ...

https://deadspin.com/teen-girl-pose...man-to-write-abo-1820305588?rev=1510271110303

 

Absolutely amazing the lack of background work and self-checking a poster does before a d_b occurs.

"Married male baseball writer" outed

 

Ho ho ho. Merry Thanksgiving.

 

Are the book and film rights available for sale?!?

 

My of my, how downhill Baseball Prospects has gone. Stuff like this gives ammo to those who love to shout "Fake News." A real embarrassment.

 

I'd argue that sites like SBNation, Rivals, and Bleacher Report are more responsible for the rise of media distrust than people want to believe. Rivals pretends to be legit but almost all of the individual site coverage has a positive slant toward the university that's being covered. Coach gets fired? Here's a quick post that's quickly buried by a "hot board" that has all kinds of intriguing names over who could turn this thing around? Top player arrested? Don't put it on the front page, but put a post on the exclusive message board with an unsexy headline.

At least with Rivals you know who is writing the actual story and a smart consumer can make a judgement from there. Not always the case with SBNation and Bleacher Report. Are they writing under a pseudonym? Are they getting paid? What are their credentials?

And what happens is since anybody can write for those sites and those sites are so wide read, the readers of those sites believe that anyone can be a journalist. They don't understand the system in place to report actual news. So while right wing screechers were the genesis of the "liberal media" and "fake news", some of the biggest sites in sports journalism haven't exactly instilled a lot of confidence in the profession either.

 

It's quite obvious by now the media is controlled. In politics, sports, whatever. It's about controlling the narratives, spinning to fit an agenda. The truth? Fu** the truth. The public can't know the truth. If the public found out the truth, there would be a revolution in a minute. There are very very few true investigative journalists these days. Too many ugly truths that are forbidden to be reported. Trump has exposed CNN as fake news media manipulation artists - completely. We live in a world of truth vs propaganda.

 

Don't worry, that's all media, ever. People too.

 

That's not true.

Twenty five years ago when I started at my shop, we had two editors for every local story we published. And when it was a larger piece with greater impact and detail, we put three or four editors on those stories. Mind you, those were seasoned, veteran copy editors with fantastic skills at catching even the smallest error or problem.

In today's shitty media age, we have one copy editor and sometimes nobody at all to read the local copy. And the local copy editor is the worst editor I've ever seen and usually inserts errors into the story more often than he finds and removes them.

That's what happens when you lay all your well-educated, experienced people off and replace them with a dumbass with no training or education and experience at a weekly rag.

There was actually a day and age when it matted and newspapers cared.

 

I only have a few brief exchanges with Schultz. Certainly not enough to suspect anything; nothing seemed off as far as I could tell (just social media, so no voice).

 

Is she hot?

 

Manti Te'o: Smokin' hot