Crusade!
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 07:58PM I'm in.
Resource favorite HeismanPundit is calling for a college football bloggers' crusade of sorts, against the college football media establishment/MSM.
We're with him on this one. I don't think HP or myself intends
for any French Revolution style guillotinings (is that a word?) or
anything like that, but the main point is accountability. His
example about what happened before the Orange Bowl was a personally
redeeming moment of sorts knowing beforehand the game's likely outcome
and how completely clueless these highly paid and respected pundits
were.
If I'm reading him right, with the slate wiped clean, everything from
here on out said or written by the prominent writers is fair game and
determinant of their standing as either flat earthers, dunderheads, or
decent pundits. This could get ugly. Everything before is
forgotten, what matters is now.
In support of that, HP calls on the bloggers to take a stand and inject
their opinions, citing the political bloggers' expertise and stronger
credibility in the face of an arrogant and clueless mainstream media
(MSM) as evidenced by the half-nelson, purple nurple takedown of CBS
News' Dan Rather.
Now, given the widespread diaspora of opinion in the college football
blogosphere, this at first seems difficult, but the larger issue is
taking to task the baseless and unaccounted for opinions made daily
that are heavily influencing the college football public. In this
game truth counts, and so does accountability. We likey.
Again, HP provides a gentle nudge to the CFB bloggers out there like
myself, with a call for bloggers' common sense and critically, an
adherance to independent knowledge.
Basically this is what we're supposed to learn in college, the whole
independent thought thing, but as reflected in the unanimous d'oh
on college football's biggest stage last January, in the idiocy of how
the polls work, in what's said on a regular basis on sports radio, in
the prominent writers' columns, on GameDay and much, much more, the
lesson hasn't sunk in for many of our sport's leading people of
influence.
If nothing else, if HP, Resource, and a few of the other bloggers take
this to heart, this season could be a significant learning experience
for many of us. I look forward to it.
"Go against the conventional wisdom"
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