Blogger 365 Day 330 - Doubling down on stupid

     About a week ago I wrote a blog where I criticized the media, at least one member of it for making a story up out of whole cloth, without a single solitary fact or statement from anyone to support it.  The author of the story was Jason La Canfora and he covers the NFL for CBS Sports and in it he claimed the Indianapolis Colts were interested in getting Ray Rice.  Of course that story was quickly discredited by, among others, the Colts themselves and their disinterest was also posted on the same website.

     That right there should be the end of our story, but it isn't.  After being discredited, La Canfora is now doubling down on the stupid juice he has been drinking, again arguing that the Colts should be pursuing Ray Rice.  Admittedly this column is an opinion piece rather than a news story, but at some point a respectable person would just say look I got it wrong, rather than continue to beat the same dead drum time and time again. 

     It is a sad time we live in when we now have to consider whether journalists even give two shits about credibility and instead are all worry more about page views then the truth.  Whether it be La Canfora and his Ray Rice fetish or Rolling Stone doing no fact checking whatsoever before running a rape story in their magazine, the truth is out there and the truth is speculation and innuendo sells far more than actually reporting ever could.