[Speculation] Is Schmidt on the move?

[EastVanCanuck]

5 hours ago, wallstreetamigo said:

Excellent post.

 

People here who bash the media and cry about how unscrupulous they are clearly have no understanding at all how the relationship between the media and insiders around the nhl actually works. 

 

The media are regularly fed info that GM's, agents, players, etc want out in the public sphere. On the flip side, the media uses their sources to gather info they need for a scoop.

 

Its very much a two way street. 

Stop stroking each other's c$#$.  You sirs are media hacks.

 

 

The public will lose interest in your bs.  

[oldnews]

5 hours ago, Provost said:

The folks bashing the media should also keep in mind that even the worst media member in town knows almost infinitely more and is much better connected than literally everyone on this forum... so sure, call them out for not being as good as they should be, but don't pretend you know any more than any of them.
 

you're simply wrong about that - and obviously don't know "everyone on this forum" - ironically, as you yourself make a pretentious, categorical statement like this, that you 100% have no idea what you're talking about - but when has that ever stopped you before?

 

there are Canucks employees that participate in these forums - and I don't mean limited to ushers at GM place (there are those also) - but people that are involved in the everyday hockey business of the franchise - that know a whole lot more than any media about the day to day decisions of the franchise - and post on these forums (without, obviously, compromising professional and priveleged information).

 

Don't ask me to "out" them specifically - and at the same time, there are a number of us here who are aware of this - no need to qualify this fact to you.

 

Regardless - it's not necessary to inquire with them regarding insider rumours to realize that there are a fair number of media in this market that take liberties regularly - talk through their hat with frequency - have track records that earn them criticism - and as a result have earned literally no credibility in the process.  Fluff them universally all you want - the one truth here is that you don't know what you're talking about (as usual).

[Ilunga]

42 minutes ago, Provost said:

“Some people earned some of their money” is not a rational counterpoint to my comment.

 

Wealth isn’t what you earned and spent.  The bulk of boomer wealth has been due to real estate inflation.  When you took out a $50,000 mortgage and now your house is worth $800,000… it is a stretch to say you earned that, certainly not when making the argument that millennials didn’t earn anything.

Add in the fact that the same boomer population started their working careers with national debts of just in the hundreds of dollars per person, but are finishing their working careers with tens of thousands per person in national debt… and those same people basically lived off government credit cards where they charged government services that they didn’t want to pay taxes for.

 

Did you even read that article about generational inequality ?

 

Government credit cards ?

No such thing here.

I have never had a credit card full stop.

Taxes have been falling for decades here in Aus and the

US,both personal and corporate.

The personal income rate in the US used to be as high as 90 percent for some. 

 

Lots of "boomers" as you cohort them are having to take out reverse mortgages just to survive over here in Aus.

 

Wasn't it the boomers who were fighting for civil rights in the sixties ?

 

Every generation loves to blame the ones before them. 

 

 

 

Edited July 7, 2021 by Ilunga

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