When I lived in Atlanta, I once met a young lady who worked in "Public Relations". One afternoon over a beer, she explained to me that her job was to get "placements". Over the course of the next hour, I came to understand effectively what that meant is that businesses who wanted favorable press, employed her PR firm and she worked on their behalf to get articles "placed" into news outlets such as magazines and newspapers. I suppose I was naive, but it quickly became clear to me that much of what we all read in the press is bullshit. For example, it is now obvious whenever I read an article that states how great some CEO of a company is that this "newsworthy" item is the product of two PR pros working to pump the massive ego of some overpaid prima donna, in hopes of selling more widgets.
A major reason why I love blogging is because professional journalists in the USA sold their soul to satan years ago (if any journalists are reading this, to hear Bill Hick's viewpoint on selling your soul to satan, please watch the below youtube video). Bloggers can tell the truth because they write for the fun of it. Today's American journalism feels a lot more like the Russian Politburo, except that cash buys newsprint in the USA, rather than the gift of vodka to a political official.
So,,, what is the point of this rant? Well the man who destroyed the Cleveland Browns, Art Modell, is trying to revise history in a last gasp effort to make the Football Hall of Fame in Canton. Now that makes me mad!!! Click here to read this revisionist trash from todays Baltimore Sun. You can bet your bottom dollar some PR jerk somewhere is behind this bit of "journalism"
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