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Anyone Else Hate The Media?
Jun 11, 2015 at 6:40 AM
- Youngone
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No players in the top 100?!?
Jun 11, 2015 at 6:47 AM
- SonocoNinerFan
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I hate the snarky douche-bags always looking for a "gotcha" quote . . . or the special idiots that go out of their way to make themselves part of a story. Unfortunately those two groups seem to make up about 90% of the media. Why? Because it induces page hits and sells advertising.
Jun 11, 2015 at 6:51 AM
- SoCold
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Originally posted by IHATELOWELLCOHN:
I'm getting real close to not clicking on any article regarding the 49ers unless it's by Niners Nation or the Webzone itself. Wether it's a former player turned analyst like Chris Canty saying best case scenario this season for the 49ers is to get the top pick in the draft or it's a local media member like Eric Branch twisting a player's words to make his article sound more dramatic it just seems like it's open season on the 49ers. We were 8-8 last season not 1-16 and we coulda shoulda woulda had at least 3 more wins, even with the craziness. Kap goes from one of the best young QBs the league has seen to a "remedial" QB who can't read a defense and only wants to run after his first read isn't there. Nobody talks about the 300 yard SB performance and playoff wins after one down season, it's like he was never there. According to some of our local writers he's a lost cause. It's so funny to me how the media acts like Harbaugh was the only reason for success when they hated giving him any credit when he was our HC.
I know it doesn't matter what anyone thinks but the 53 guys in that locker room come week 1 but there just seems to be an inordinate amount of hate for my team. We got criticized for keeping McDonald on the team last year then got criticized for releasing him. Every player that retires is because of the front office and not because they made a personal life choice. Every player we took In the draft is a reach and Jim Tomsula and the new coaching staff is a joke. I like the way he has run the OTAs and his reasoning for not pushing and playing certain players until training camp. I also like the pace he has set in practice and the way he has rotated players in an out of different positions and installed a fix it period at the end of practice, all things the old coaching staff by all accounts may not have been doing or pushing. The attendance this off season was excellent. It's not much to go on because he is a first time HC but I would rather judge his progress off of those things than what he looked like during his first presser.
The building seems to have a more positive vibe and the players seem rejuvenated but that's what every team says this time of year right? When it's something that isn't looked at in a positive light stories are all about how negatively it's going to effect our season but when something positive happens are the stories about how it may contribute to a winning season? Nope, it's still the off season and every team says good positive things this time of year. What a joke. One of the really irritating parts is if you read the blogs and people's posts they are like recycled media articles repeating the same things they have read. Personally I am excited for this season and the infusion of youth on the roster. Kap realized his shortcomings and is trying to improve himself and just the fact he realized that he needed to be coached up this off season was IMO huge by itself. He's had a lot of success early and it would have been very easy to chalk last year up to a bad season by everybody and continue to do the same things he's done to this point. I like Mangini running the D and love Logan as our new QB coach. I have always liked Clancy Penderghast and even though I'm not sure about Chryst I won't judge him off his stint in SD because his talent was horrible. He was a hot coach as recently as 2013 and would have been Roman's successor if he would have left and Harbaugh was still here. I like our WRs coaches and Rathman is still here. We lost some great Niners but most were past their prime or overpaid by other teams and we didn't win with them. Speaking of the roster a lot of media and fans act like Baalke wasn't one of the factors for the team's success but Harbaugh magically transformed them into winners and won despite Baalke. That's just stupid.
I just think people are taking shots at the 49ers because it's the thing to do. I get the fan hate from other teams because people hate teams that are more successful than theirs. What I don't get is the hate from a lot of our own fans and the hate from the media and former players now turned analysts. It's always something negative on TV or on the internet. Give this thing a chance we weren't getting better we were getting worse, I don't understand why that is a mystery to people. Every year in every sport there are teams that make the media look like idiots and I am sure the 49ers will be one of those teams this year. What makes me sick though is the same media people and fans bashing the team now will only lightly gloss over how wrong they were when the Niners win this year. I've stopped reading Lowell Cohn and his idiot son, Tim Kamakazi, Ann Killion and Florio. I've stopped watching the NFL Network and Pro Football Talk because everything is about the Pats, Hawks, Giants and Cowboys and when there is a Niners story it's not good or an opinion on how bad they may be. They don't have faith in Kap but think Carson Palmer and Nick Foles are something special? I'd rather have Kap than both of them and he has won more than either of them. I know I'm being defensive because it's human nature to protect something you love when everyone gangs up on someone or something but IMO it's been overkill this off season. If anyone else feels this way let me know. I just needed to blow off some steam because although the Branch article wasn't that bad it was just another example of in Eric Reid's words someone creating drama for clicks at the expense of my team.
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Jun 11, 2015 at 8:24 AM
- Youngone
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Haha you sound like a republicanOriginally posted by SonocoNinerFan:I hate the snarky douche-bags always looking for a "gotcha" quote . . . or the special idiots that go out of their way to make themselves part of a story. Unfortunately those two groups seem to make up about 90% of the media. Why? Because it induces page hits and sells advertising.
Jun 11, 2015 at 9:09 AM
- FlayvaMeister
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Originally posted by Young2Rice:
The media in today's age is not the same anymore .. With such fast transmission of data everywhere And social media outlets, the fans often know things before the reporters do ... what can a reporter provide about a game which i just saw in HD and every play scrutinized in super slow motion with 10 angels ...
To quote StOnEy333, from a NT Thread a few days ago, "It's CLICK BAIT" !!!
I work in The Media, just not as a Field/Post-Game Reporter anymore. Nowadays, it's Voice-overs, Commercial Copy,
and Marketing projects.
I actually HATE the NEW Brand of what's being passed-off, as Sport Reporting today. I consider myself 'Old School' ...
in that I try to adhere to 1) what I was taught in school, 2) as well as, what other Veteran Media people passed on to me.
Problem being - These New Age -- Social Media -- type Reporters, don't care/or want to follow, certain Code(s) of Industry Ethics ...
which many of us (myself included), feel they are not following ... for Fear of either being Scooped, or being Late to The Party.
Seemingly, them and their Editor's or Programme Directors, are more concerned with the amount of Clicks per Article/Story -- they'll
hopefully generate -- then actually running well thought out and properly researched pieces.
[ Edited by FlayvaMeister on Jun 11, 2015 at 9:46 AM ]
Jun 11, 2015 at 9:44 AM
- FlayvaMeister
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Originally posted by thl408:
... As to why the media seems to be ragging on the 49ers, it should be obvious. "A lot of drama just went down this offseason so we should understand why the media thinks the 49ers are going to sink". If they are wrong, they won't mention it. If they are right, they'll let everyone know.
If they are WRONG, they will quietly SLITHER their way back into the collective minds of (the) Casual and Bandwagon Fan ...
Although they are all guilty of this, I find the Talking Heads, to be the Biggest Offender ... as people -- in general -- believe what
they see on T.V. and take it as Gospel.
Jun 11, 2015 at 11:58 AM
- captveg
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Barrows showing how a real journalist does things. He doesn't completely dismiss the more dire theories outright, but he contextualizes why they are less likely to be the supposed core truths that the more drama-stirring writers hang their hats on.
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article23716924.html
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article23716924.html
Jun 11, 2015 at 12:24 PM
- theduke85
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Originally posted by captveg:Barrows is one of the few good sports reporters out there. Maiocco is another one.
Barrows showing how a real journalist does things. He doesn't completely dismiss the more dire theories outright, but he contextualizes why they are less likely to be the supposed core truths that the more drama-stirring writers hang their hats on.
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article23716924.html
Sep 6, 2015 at 6:59 PM
- jimrat
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I would love to f**k this dude up.
Sep 6, 2015 at 9:03 PM
- RealSapster4Niners
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Originally posted by IHATELOWELLCOHN:
I know it doesn't matter what anyone thinks but the 53 guys in that locker room come week 1 but there just seems to be an inordinate amount of hate for my team.
Firstly, it's MY team
Don't sweat it. The media is all about selling news and they do it with sensationalism. Journalism, for the most part, makes us dumber.
Sep 6, 2015 at 11:04 PM
- Dr_Bill_Walsh
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British/euro ⚽️ "media" is a million x worse....tabloid, hearsay, gossip on steroids
Sep 7, 2015 at 8:55 AM
- NCommand
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Gutierrez's 53 player analysis on Boone. SMH. What an absolute tool.
Alex Boone: Still trying to figure out if left guard liked or hated Jim Harbaugh, and if he had to explain his about-face in the locker room.
Alex Boone: Still trying to figure out if left guard liked or hated Jim Harbaugh, and if he had to explain his about-face in the locker room.
Sep 7, 2015 at 9:01 AM
- amir_tn80
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Matt Barrows is predicting 8-8 and no playoffs. Do we hate him now too?
Sep 7, 2015 at 9:03 AM
- niners94
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Originally posted by amir_tn80:Matt Barrows is predicting 8-8 and no playoffs. Do we hate him now too?
Seems about right. If we do really well, then maybe 10-6.
Sep 7, 2015 at 9:04 AM
- mayo49
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They don't bother me.