The Anti-Media Media

[ExtremeArt]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

Well if anyone really felt this way about Joe then they are a dumb shit! He gets his passes pulled for no damn reason like the day before camp and they expected him to be like "well that's life". WTF?
Joe is about being a responsible journalist (wheteher they want it or not) and not about being a fan who writes fluff articles. The difference is he can write fair and balanced articles from the perspective of a journalist all the while holding a loyalty to the team. Maybe that loyalty would hold him in check when barraged by the anti-Snder crowd. Seems to me that maybe that is EXACTLY what the skins should want.
And it is contradictory to say they want a fan's prespective not a fan journalists' and then group them together when handing out passes. He is either a journalist or a fan to them and in the former case he should have gotten passes like other journalists and in the other he got screwed for no good damn reason.

As I said, I'm a fan of Joe's work and we featured it prominently on our site during mini-camp. I think the problem is also the strength you attribute to him, and it's something too few running fan sites recognize. Joe is, absolutely, able to write fair and balanced articles from the perspective of a journalist all the while holding a loyalty to the team. As am I.

The difference is, I don't want to, because, more important to me than being a journalist is being a fan. More important to Joe is being a journalist. And, the team, in seeking fans to associate with, looked for those who actually seemed to BE fans. They had all the journalists capable of being journalists they needed. They didn't need fans being the same.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by ExtremeArt

They had all the journalists capable of being journalists they needed. They didn't need fans being the same.

Isn't that the big problem? That they don't have journalists capable of being journalists? Isn't this one reason Extereskins was brought on? To offer an 'unfilitered' fan's view?

[ExtremeArt]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

Isn't that the big problem? That they don't have journalists capable of being journalists? Isn't this one reason Extereskins was brought on? To offer an 'unfilitered' fan's view?

No, not really.

ES was brought on to provide fans a place to talk about the team so they wouldn't have to build it themselves . It was our idea to bring a Fan View column where we'd attempt to put forth areas fans were discussing while at the same time taking a position on those views.

The Arrington column which many did not like because it distinctly taunted some fans, was very controversial at the Park just for the reasons I saw in this thread. Do they really want to divide fans on their official site. I actually credit them for having the guts to publish it and thank them for it.

One thing I can promise anyone who wonders, no one has sold out or altered positions based on the relationship. If the team tries to make everyone go to a single MasterCard for all payment while I have voice, you can bet they'll get absolutely hammered . So far my natural inclination as a fan is to believe in experienced, proven coaches who set direction rather than individual players I may love. That's why I didn't weep a whole lot when we lost Smoot, who was my favorite.