Mike B

18 bizarre/suspicious media behaviors in the Russini - Vrabel scandal. Did I miss anything? 1.) ESPN (10% NFL owned) virtually ignored it for 2 weeks 2.) Crickets at NFL Network 3.) CBS ignored it for 11 days 4.) Dan Lebatard says the story makes him "uncomfortable" 5.) Scott Zolak insinuates he would lose his job if he covers the story 6.) Two WEEI radio hosts in Boston do lose their job after covering it 7.) USA Today fires Crissy Froyd after she's critical of Russini 8.) TMZ originally turned the story down because it didn’t want to “police the bedroom”, but now covering it 9.) The Athletic originally stands firmly behind Russini, then investigates her 10.) ESPN doesn’t tweet its own eventual story on the scandal, instead having an account with 8k followers tweet it very late on a Friday night 11.) Adam Schefter 3+ hours late (after midnight) tweeting the news about Vrabel missing the NFL draft 12.) Kid Gloves - Failure by several outlets to cover the 2015 Russini incident, tampering angle, or COTY voting conflict of Interest 13.) First Take: "We didn't want to talk about it on this show" 14.) AP still no comment on Russini’s status as awards voter - even after getting called out by PFT 15.) Media figures attacking influencers who shine light on #12 16.) AP writes a story about Russini resigning, doesn’t mention she is one of their AP awards voters 17.) ESPN's 50M+ X account only tweeted the word "Vrabel" once since April 1st despite a controversy with his RB over a bible tweet, 2 press conferences, and 4 photo dumps by TMZ and others 18.) The same sports media outlets who were obsessed wih the "ColdPlay couple" (Even though it's not a sports story) are ignoring the Russini - Vrabel scandal completely.

With all the attention on the Russini/Vrabel affair, there has not been nearly enough focus on the the role of @nytimes @TheAthletic and @espn… Journalistically, it is astonishing and extremely telling that the New York Times initially fully backed the lies of Russini. This was strange when the story first broke, but now that a mountain of evidence has been uncovered, and she resigned on her own, even eventually deleting her social media, it is clear the NY Times completely failed when it came to basic journalistic instincts and investigative skills. They were probably also influenced by their arrogance because the story first broke in the @nypost which the NY Times looks down upon. It is now clear that the NY Times was exposed as completely clueless when it came to evaluating their own journalistic standards, and it should be a black mark on their record forever, making people fundamentally question their basic judgment. The ESPN situation is perhaps even more interesting and telling because of their history when it comes to covering stories of alleged sexual improprieties and supposed organizational cover ups. It has been the height of hypocrisy and journalistic malpractice that, to this date, even with the story having HUGE significance because it has impacted the NFL Draft, one of ESPN’s biggest events of the year, that ESPN has not reported AT ALL on the photos indicating that Russini was having an affair with Vrabel while she was a key reporter for ESPN and he was the coach of the Titans. Incredibly, they haven’t even released a substantive statement as of yet. When you compare this total silence to how ESPN immediately decided in November 2011, with ZERO actual evidence/logic, that Joe Paterno and Penn State had obviously been engaged in a cover up of Jerry Sandusky’s presumed crimes, going literally wall to wall with coverage until Paterno was eventually fired, it is extremely enlightening. While the stories are obviously not totally analogous, at the core of ESPN’s Penn State coverage was their fervent belief that it would be impossible for Sandusky to be engaged in the behavior alleged (even as a FORMER employee of Penn State) without Penn Stare knowing about it. It was also assumed by ESPN that Penn State had a huge incentive to cover up the story (which, since Sandusky was a former employee at the time of the key allegation, never made any sense). Based on ESPN’s own precedent/standard, it is more than fair to presume that it would be impossible for ESPN to not realize that one of their primary NFL reporters was engaged in an affair with an NFL head coach (especially given all the hints Russini was leaving publicly). It would also be totally reasonable to presume that ESPN was more than willing to cover up this information because they were clearly benefiting from Russini’s unique “access” to news. It would not even be a stretch to presume, using the standard that ESPN used in the Penn State case, and in other similar moral panics, that this type of behavior from their female reporters was systematic and essentially approved of by ESPN as a effectively a legitimatized (or at least somewhat accepted) “journalistic” practice. While there has been some effort by sports news outlets to force ESPN to act responsibly here, there has not yet been nearly enough to force action. ESPN must be held to their own standards of evaluation and accountability in these types of situations. But since the news media in general, and the sports media in particular, are currently completely broken, I won’t be holding my breath for this to actually happen.

Making this mistake betrays a deep ignorance of American culture. It’s not a mistake that anyone with a passing knowledge of or interest in our history could possibly make. That’s a problem.

This is why your healthcare sucks. Most of the money is being used to create fake jobs for parasites.

Dear car manufacturers, You thought sales were bad when they forced you into EVs. Wait for total bankruptcy when you install kill switches and biometrics. Good luck.

@JenSiebelNewsom you F'd Harvey Weinstein

My family and I watched the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump and Norah O’Donnell last night, and we were shocked. Seeing a president speak to a woman journalist with that level of contempt — and a clear allergy to facts — is disturbing, though at this point not unexpected given his pattern of behavior. But that is the problem. Because when that level of disrespect from the highest office in the country repeats itself, it starts to trickle down into our culture and define what power looks like, shaping how boys and plenty of men see women and girls and what they come to accept as normal behavior.

@Mennosiebassie @waglyvibes You mean there really wasn't a camera in her face every time she cried at the cage. LOL. Garbage AI

@waglyvibes Check the bars of the cage. 0:25

My heart goes out to her 😥😥😥😥

@mechanical_4u A barn is more aerodynamic than a jeep.

Recent test reveals that a cow is actually more aerodynamic than a jeep wrangler

@Ilhan You committed nincest, see even that sounds better.

A rebrand won’t distract us from the truth: this reprehensible agency murdered two Minnesotans in broad daylight. Abolish ICE.

@swd2 @FLOTUS

@FLOTUS Have you seen your husband's tweets?

Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand.  How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.

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@t_swampfox1776 @CynicalPublius Found another one👆

@CynicalPublius In this rant you have described a huge amount of maga sheep on this site. People are choosing to see only what they want to see.

Cole Allen is the Dunning-Kruger Assassin. Allen is not some random nut job from the fringes of society. He’s a very articulate graduate of Caltech, which means he has a high degree of native intelligence. He’s in the education profession. He is on BlueSky. He goes to No Kings protests. He’s your basic rank-and-file Democrat. But it’s that high native intellect that led him astray. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is, at its simplest level, people thinking they know more that they do. People who are high achievers in one area often mistakenly believe their native abilities make them experts in all areas. So you get a super-smart guy like Allen, he excels in one narrow area, and extrapolates that excellence into thinking he knows more than he does in other areas. He goes into Blue Sky, he goes to No Kings protests, and he is easily swayed into believing all of the insane, violent lies those sorts of intellectual cesspools foster. All of a sudden this computer science expert is a national political policy expert too, except that latter expertise is derived from insane propaganda. The man with the intellectual skill to write code is not smart enough to recognize when he himself has fallen prey to propaganda, so he KNOWS that Donald Trump is Hitler and must be stopped. And when you KNOW that someone is Hitler, what’s the right thing to do? That’s what is so scary at this very moment—the sheer number of ostensibly educated Democrats who KNOW so many things are “true" that are actually so very, very untrue. In many ways, Cole Allen is just an average Democrat, and like most average Democrats, he fell prey to credentialism and Dunning-Kruger. But Cole took it to the next level; let’s pray more do not.

@sofiakinzinger He had a manifesto, ya dingbat!

Why are we assuming the shooter was targeting the president? Consider the language that’s been repeated about the press: “Enemy of the people.” “Corrupt media.” “Activist journalists.” “Radical media.”

You know what to do, make this 'school teacher' famous. @looper1973

Yep

@malcolmkenyatta Fucking retard.

We don’t end gun violence in America by building a ballroom for Trump.

@BarackObama We know the motive.

Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.

🚨 Brit Hume drops hard truth: “The Democratic Party has drifted farther to the left than I’ve ever seen. They are out where the buses don’t run.” “Conservatives tend to be proud to be Americans, no matter who is in office. But liberals in this country have gone sour on America. They’ve given up on America. They’re rooting against America.” A party infected with radical, anti-American ideology. Democrats can’t even say America is great when their own team is in charge. #BritHume #Democrats #AmericaFirst

The "Hate Has No Home Here" crowd keeps trying to kill people.

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