Bloogger 365 Day 324 - Hating on the media (again!)

     By now anyone who follows the NFL in even the slightest has heard that a third party arbitrator has decided that Ray Rice should be reinstated to the NFL; that Ray did not lie to the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell when ray talked to the league about the night when he knocked his wife unconscious and that the league had no standing to punish Rice once (a two game suspension) and then a second time (suspended indefinitely) after the video of Rice striking his then fiance (now wife) was available for public consumption. 

     That doesn't mean that Rice has a job, his former employer the Baltimore Ravens, cut him so he is capable of signing with any team in the NFL, should a team choose to do so.  OF course signing Ray Rice comes with all of the baggage and media attention that comes with hiring a man who abuses women, or at least one woman.

     Still that did not stop one of the experts over at CBS Sports from pontificating just where Ray Rice may go, suggesting that the Indianapolis Colts might be interested.  You really should take a look at the article, its author, Jason La Canfora, makes an interesting case for why Rice might fit with that team.  Read the article very closely though, because if you look closely enough you will see something that is lacking.  Namely a single source that would even suggest that the Colts might be interested in signing Rice in the first place.  It is all just idle speculation simply to garner page hits and make some advertisers happy.


     But wait, it gets better.  After posting that article the same site posted this later on,  Report: Colts not interested in running back Ray Rice.  The thing is, there really is no need for this article because the idea of Ray Rice going to the Colts was never news anyway, it was just something one of your writers made up out of whole cloth.  

     This is one of the tricks that takes place nowadays, whether it be on TV, on the web or in print, a news organizations posits a narrative with scant evidence to back it up, and then when someone comments on the narrative in question, the comment is treated as news as well.  The news isn't about informing the public, it is about getting web hits and eyeballs to advertisers and nothing more, and the truth and actual reporting carry no relevance in that conversation whatsoever.