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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Sloane's platform is HNIC, and Twitter, and anything else she can use to make sure people are talking about "what Tara Sloane said" about whatever issue people happen to be caring about at the moment. Again, everything that is going on here is about brand. The 2010 Blackhawks weren't protecting a video coach by not immediately firing Aldrich, they were protecting the brand. The Blackhawks and NHL resisted an investigation for years because of the damage it would cause to their brands. And a lot of people are now trying to use this opportunity to service their own personal brands.
Allan Walsh is somehow different? Well, he has a hockey podcast, too, now, called "Agent Provocateur" - he's doing exactly the same thing. Listen to what I have to say! Have me on your show so I can tell everyone what I think! Everyone is just trying to get a piece of your attention because they obtain wide-scale affirmation and brand capital from it. They're not, in other words, doing anything analogous to shooting the ####.
It's entirely self-serving, and especially so because as I mentioned, these peoples' opinions have no special value. Sloane is former failed actress and reality show contestant. Adam Wylde is a college dropout radio jockey. I guess at least Wyshinski has a journalism degree, so that's something, but he seems to apply it fairly haphazardly. None of these people are great thinkers whose views about societal issues are worth your time - if you wanted to listen to someone talk about this stuff, you'd have a hard time doing worse.
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Not everyone in the public eye is a self-serving narcissist, and I have trouble believing you could entertain anything they say or listen to them with any pleasure at all on any topic under that belief. What this says to me is that people are nothing more than their occupations to you, and so long as they act, think, and speak within the confines of those occupations, that's good. But if they act like a person who is more than their job, it's bad.
This makes me somewhat sad, as I think it portrays a far too pessimistic and ungenerous view of strangers and their motives, so we will have to just agree to disagree.