Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 28

[Ford Fairlane]

Stand by for another Kaneurysm.

(I stole that)

He's thrown out the bait and the seagulls are flocking

 

[backtozero]

Fogarty had a good year and probably not such a bad contract if it's front loaded.

Kane just making himself look like a biased dickhead as per usual.

 

[Festerz]

He's thrown out the bait and the seagulls are flocking

Yep.

Like all modern sports commentators he’s on a a performance contract which rewards ‘engagements’ which bring views to the sponsors who pay his salary and provide income to his employers.

The more outrageous and offensive his comments are, the more people who rush to get on line to comment.

This has been the revenue model for over a decade now for almost every commercial media outlet. And still people get sucked in by it.

Sure these schmucks are lacking integrity by playing the game but there’s f-all money to be made in honest hard working journalism based on research and facts these days. No one buys a subscription to a proper media outlet with proper trained journalists any more. We want the sugar hit of instant outrage instead.

So news outlets become entertainers and they don’t employ journalists but performers.

they become hack shock jocks playing to our prejudices.

And that’s on us.