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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3151788, member: 1220"] I frequent a lot of boards and Sports sites. I even subscribe to ESPN, but they still always try to get me to take their mag over the mail even though I have repeatedly told them I don't want it. People need to understand that the print media is hanging on by a thread. This results in them using every means available to gain readership. The news media has followed the path of the National Enquirer. It is more about sensationalism than actual facts or news. Controversy draws people in. There is a writer who writes for a SF Bay Area Paper who has a reputation for sensationalism and critical takes on the SF 49ers and their players. He seemed to veer between very insightful analysis and totally off the wall attack perspectives. This made no sense to me until he let it slip that his bosses told him to write a specific controversial article. I followed up on this slip and his none response brought things into clarity. Writers very often do not even believe what they write but are in fact directed by their bosses to write controversy to gain readership. Having followed ESPN for some time that perspective would easily explain many of the articles that find their way on their site. They are writing to create controversy It certainly worked in this case because everyone is still discussing the article. I suspect Voepel saw an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Write a controversial article while also grinding a personal ax. People need to realize that the news medias prime objective is not objectivity any more but rather marketing themselves. [/QUOTE]

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