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Thursday, August 24,2017 The Baldwin Bulletin I Your local newspaper Page B9 Media Continued from B1 is faulty and giving credence to the claims that Roger Goodell and the NFL overstepped their bounds with disciplining Elliott. After all, one of the benefits of the American justice system is the idea of “innocent until proven guilty.” I’m sorry to disappoint you if you read this to learn what side I’m on. I’m not here to pour more gasoline on a fire that’s already out of control; I’m here to talk about the forest that has already been burned. What I’m getting at with all of this is the Ezekial Elliott controversy is the latest failure of nationwide mainstream sports media. I’m definitely not one of those people who cry about “mainstream media” when ever they see something on TV they don’t like (if I had a problem with media, I’d have no college degree and be unemployed). But I’ve always been under the impression the purpose of having sports media is to talk about, well, sports. Instead, we have a quag mire of corporately-owned shills who politicize and romanticize every bit of bad news and then relent lessly work to turn a profit on it. In a perfect world, I’d like to come home from work and only hear about Elliott’s suspension on Sports Center for about a minute or so. Excluding repeating the news a few more times throughout the day for new viewers as well as breaking news updates regarding the issue, I wouldn’t have to hear about it in any greater capacity than that. What I get instead is a bunch of uneducated clowns like Skip Bayless, Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman proceeding to create staged and down right dishonest arguments about it for nothing more than the sake of arguing. I mean, I understand why they do it. For what ever reason, we here in America seem to think a celebrity’s opinion is worth twice what a normal person’s is, and that loud, boisterous debates on national television attract ratings; but it still does not justify the fact that honest sports media focusing on things that actually matter have been cast aside in favor of what is essentially the sports version of TMZ. Far be it from me to say a domestic violence case isn’t important - it very much is, especially once we get to the bottom of things. But the reality is that you, the viewer, reader or listener, have absolutely no power to affect the outcome of this controversy. Whether you like it or not, you’re just an average Joe. With this in mind, ask yourself why the media would continue to peddle the same story several times a day with unneces sary added commentary or completely arbitrary debates to an audience that, even if you somehow changed their minds on Local Services the issue, will not have their lives affected by these events in any way whatsoever? It is entirely possible that I’m just being a downer. As I said before, if I hated media, then I wouldn’t have spent all this time and money making a career out of it; but still, my feelings on mainstream sports media could just be a result of my growing apathy for it. I don’t think this is the case though. I really believe that there is a growing problem in sports media today, and I believe it has been allowed to continue unchecked for years. Sports journalism is the path I chose in life, and it is a choice I intend to stick with for many years, but I will never stoop low enough to become the TMZ-esque filth that is ruining the love of sports that people all across the nation have. Elliott is preparing to appeal the NFL’s decision to suspend him for six games, so perhaps when the appeal is either approved or denied, we’ll finally have a conclusion to this debacle and, much more importantly, we’ll know the truth about Elliott’s charges. Until then, expect the same uneducated talking suits to keep milking this cow for as long as possible and lining the pockets of the corporate shills that pull their strings until the next big controversy breaks out. And then maybe, MAYBE we can talk some football. 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