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Does Everyone Still Hate Botchford?


pimpcurtly

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I'm scared to edit so will add something of substance to my thoughts: I am tiring of the sensationalistic form of "journalism" that we're seeing. The headline grabbing, controversial garbage. Sure, on occasion it's nice to stray from the mundane and hit some of this stuff up for variety but, on a regular basis, it's whiney.

Report on the lines, practices, health of the team, schedule, etc. Not on the "he said she said he will she will" speculation and rumour mill stuff.

It reminds me too much of high school and is counter productive in my view.

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Botchford...

Sensationalism is a type of editorial bias in mass media in which events and topics in news stories and pieces are over-hyped to increase viewership or readership numbers.[1] Sensationalism may include reporting about generally insignificant matters and events that don't influence overall society and biased presentations of newsworthy topics in a trivial or tabloid manner.[2][3]

Some tactics include being deliberately obtuse,[4] appealing to emotions,[5] being controversial, intentionally omitting facts and information,[6] being loud and self-centered and acting to obtain attention.[5] Trivial information and events are sometimes misrepresented and exaggerated as important or significant, and often includes stories about the actions of individuals and small groups of people,[1] the content of which is often insignificant and irrelevant relative to the macro-level day-to-day events that occur globally. Furthermore, the content and subject matter typically doesn't affect the lives of the masses[1] and doesn't affect society, and instead is broadcast and printed to attract viewers and readers.

 

Solid post!

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