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Okay, fine, I'll go see a doctor
Weekend was good. Didn't do much, outside of the fight, but it was good. I did take a video of another fight, that of my brother's best friend Tony. Tony is a beast. He's 220-230ish (can't remember), and his fight lasted about 10 seconds. Got to meet him, finally, yesterday and it's amazing. He basically amounts to a teddy bear outside of the ring. But, damn, I would not want to face him in the ring.
My brother told me yesterday that the guy he beat actually passed out. I didn't realize this until today, but I caught a moment on film where you can see the results. As the film fades out to the aftermath portion, you can see the ref reach down, pick up the guy's arm, it flops down. He was unconscious at that point.
This is an awesome article, written concerning the recent hooopla over Mass Effect on Fox News. I was really, really glad to see it. But, it also exemplifies the problem with "journalism" today. And I use the term journalism very, very loosely. It's not about hashing things out and getting to the bottom of controversies. It's not about pursuing truth. It's not about telling the truth. It's about tabloids. It's about speaking before knowing. It's about lies.
I remember reading an article a few years ago about the "new journalism." The article, written, ironically enough, by a journalist working for the companies that it affects and is about, described how 9/11 changed the face of journalism. I'm going to completely butcher what was said, but the basic gist was that during 9/11 it was the tabloids who were getting the most news. For years, they were the place to go for "news" concerning celebs and when 9/11 happened, a lot of people apparently turned to them in droves because they had the information faster than the news programs.
When 9/11 was over and things were calming down, news programs began realizing just how much tabloids were making off of gossip, celebs and controversies. So, what happened to the news? They started taking on aspects of tabloids. We all know tabloids tell before knowing and make up the most egregious things before knowing if they're true or not, becuase it's about the dollar and about who can sell the news the quickest. No one who reads those magazines seem to care if it's real or not; if it is, they read it first. If it's not, well, there's always next time.
So, this piece of Fox News is interesting because it proves this point so damn well:
“'I recognize that I misspoke,' she said. 'I really regret saying that, and now that I’ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it’s kind of a joke.
'Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it’s like pornography,' she added. 'But it’s not like pornography. I’ve seen episodes of Lost that are more sexually explicit.'"
Basically, we're listening to this woman; a woman who not only hasn't played the game but had absolutely no frickin' knowledge of the game past what someone "heard"? Utterly ridiculous.
My brother told me yesterday that the guy he beat actually passed out. I didn't realize this until today, but I caught a moment on film where you can see the results. As the film fades out to the aftermath portion, you can see the ref reach down, pick up the guy's arm, it flops down. He was unconscious at that point.
This is an awesome article, written concerning the recent hooopla over Mass Effect on Fox News. I was really, really glad to see it. But, it also exemplifies the problem with "journalism" today. And I use the term journalism very, very loosely. It's not about hashing things out and getting to the bottom of controversies. It's not about pursuing truth. It's not about telling the truth. It's about tabloids. It's about speaking before knowing. It's about lies.
I remember reading an article a few years ago about the "new journalism." The article, written, ironically enough, by a journalist working for the companies that it affects and is about, described how 9/11 changed the face of journalism. I'm going to completely butcher what was said, but the basic gist was that during 9/11 it was the tabloids who were getting the most news. For years, they were the place to go for "news" concerning celebs and when 9/11 happened, a lot of people apparently turned to them in droves because they had the information faster than the news programs.
When 9/11 was over and things were calming down, news programs began realizing just how much tabloids were making off of gossip, celebs and controversies. So, what happened to the news? They started taking on aspects of tabloids. We all know tabloids tell before knowing and make up the most egregious things before knowing if they're true or not, becuase it's about the dollar and about who can sell the news the quickest. No one who reads those magazines seem to care if it's real or not; if it is, they read it first. If it's not, well, there's always next time.
So, this piece of Fox News is interesting because it proves this point so damn well:
“'I recognize that I misspoke,' she said. 'I really regret saying that, and now that I’ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it’s kind of a joke.
'Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it’s like pornography,' she added. 'But it’s not like pornography. I’ve seen episodes of Lost that are more sexually explicit.'"
Basically, we're listening to this woman; a woman who not only hasn't played the game but had absolutely no frickin' knowledge of the game past what someone "heard"? Utterly ridiculous.