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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I don't doubt that she's genuine in what she's saying, I just didn't give a flying #### what she has to say. And it sounds like I'm targeting Tara Sloane, and that's really only because she's being talked about in this thread. Really, I also mean Greg Wyshinski, who was unlistenable on the latest episode of Puck Soup I was listening to this morning, or Adam Wylde from the Steve Dangle Podcast I was listening to yesterday, who is consistently unlistenable, but especially when he tries to hold himself out as having some important viewpoint about some social issue, and all the rest of the people who think their personal feelings about this should be important to anyone but them and the people they interact with in their personal lives.
These people are not some sort of fonts of wisdom or public intellectuals whose input we should care about. They do not matter in the slightest. They're opportunistically attempting to bolster their own personal brands by spouting off, as if to say, "hey, pay attention to what I think about this! Don't forget about me! My personal feelings and emotions are important, indulge me! Give me affirmation!" It's obnoxious and distasteful. Allan Walsh is the perfect example of this crap, he's totally self-serving.
Some NHL reporters are, of course, doing a good job here, and asking the right questions of the people who are the subject of the story. But for every one of them, there are ten who won't ask Duncan Keith, "hey, you said you weren't interviewed - is that because you declined to be" or "Mr. Quenneville, in light of the revelations in the report this evening, why did you decide to coach tonight" - or won't apply the required pressure to persist and demand answers to those questions. It bugs the crap out of me. I don't give a damn what you think or how you feel; find out what the facts are and report them.
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I think you're 90% off the mark here, especially lumping in someone like Slone with someone like Walsh. I don't see anything self-serving about what Slone had to say. She is a human being, and as one, she is equipped to use her platform to speak her mind. I don't believe she is asking you, personally, to care and take seriously her authority on the matter.
I do find some humour in your position here. You're quite animated about why we shouldn't care about what these people have to say, or at least why you don't, but I'm left wondering why anyone should care what you have to say either?
And if we shouldn't, how is your desire to share your opinion here any less ridiculous than someone like Slone's or Wyshynski's? It's not hard to argue that it's significantly more ridiculous. A lot more people care what they have to say than care about Faceless Poster on Local Message Board, but here you are, speaking like an authority about whose opinion has value, who we should care about, and whose personal feelings and important.
At least the lowly sports journalists seem equipped to view a situation like a human being. They have that going for them.