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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

This is the thing - when something legitimately "real life" happens in the context of sports, the people who report about it are sports journalists, and they are, by and large, woefully under-equipped. These are not the best and the brightest of the journalism profession, and you can argue about what proportion of the journalism profession generally are actually particularly bright. But to the extent that they put themselves in the position of arbiters of morality and justice on top of that, that's an utter farce. Tara Sloane (or whoever) has no basis for lecturing anyone about anything and her opinions about right or wrong or what's good for society or bad for society, or any aspect of it, are of no special value.

Hell, the same goes for Rick Westhead, even, but I'm willing to give him a lot more latitude in that area given that it's his reporting that brought an important story to light. The rest of them, though, especially the Sportsnet people, are just latching on and trying to cast themselves as authorities of some sort while begging for a spotlight to be shone on them personally - I can't stand these people.

Exactly. It’s the most modern form of media slackivism. Make emotional appeals based on your “platform” but you’ve done little else. Pat yourself of the back after said emotional appeal and job done. Can’t stand that nonsense as it’s the stuff that gets retweeted and shared. The other day when this incident happened when Jackie Redmond went off it was silly. But logic doesn’t have to be used or context doesn’t have to be considered anymore. Just appeals to emotion. Job done. Checkmark, likes accomplished, dopamine activated.