Denver Post Hockey Writer Wins Stanley Cup!

Pearlman had a great thread on this:

 

I have three of these in my family and have to leave the room, if possible, when a game is on. Annoying as hell. They're never wrong, "everyone" hates the team including "every" announcer and media person, and the refs screw the team "all the time."

I know they don't go on the fanboi sites, though, because two of them are 75+ years old and one is in his 40s but doesn't give a flip about those sites (thankfully).


The golden-glad BuffaCheer TV anchor doesnt surprise me. Dress up blingy, "yay team" fangurrll with all her supporters who go apeshit if anyone disses her, and climbs the market ladder to the job with FOX or ESPN. Similar process with the guys who fanboi on the team.

Is that terrible? Nah, it's the career path they want and chose. Is it journalism? Nope. But in today's skewed world where viewers slobber over Rachel Madcow or Tucker Asshole and can't or won't tell the difference between opinion and news, it hardly matters. To them it's just another shiny-faced TV person reporting on YayMyTeam!

 

Ms. Madcow appears on network TV exactly one night per week more than Mr. Asshole does.

 

No cheering in the press box.

If you do, cheer for the game and not the teams.

 

He's a very good journalist/play-it-safe media commentator picking on some TV reporter in Colorado. He could call out ass-kissers who looked the other way for years on Mickelson, he could reference many journalists' embarrassing belief in Lance Armstrong, he could take on Bill Simmons or any number of people who write about the musical mediocrities of pop stars like Mozart just reappeared on the scene. He could name those names and really have a discussion, because some of those people either get awfully defensive or slippery about critiques lobbed against them.

He picks a Colorado TV reporter upon whom to build his lecture.

 

Bingo. Next up: A 3,000-word blog about ethics and what not. Set your watch to it.

 

And to be clear: As a promoter of journalists, Pearlman's very good and helpful. He's mostly a lover of the craft and the people doing it. Hard not to appreciate that.

 

Without a doubt. But he's also not above criticism and reproach for both how he handles the newer and older aspects of the biz. (I know you're not arguing otherwise) He can be a little much sometimes.

 

You are correct that Pearlman could have picked on someone else. But Bean is the lead sports anchor at a Top 20 CBS Owned station. She has at least seven years of experience. I think she is a big enough media presence that she can be subject to criticism.

 

We can all be a little much sometimes.