good dolphin wrote:
He is speaking through reporters and hosts not to them.
I'm growing increasingly tired of this tired & questionable claim by reporters who all too often consider themselves above it all, or at least superior to the athletes & coaches they cover. Media members (like Bernstein) already know what THEY want to write & usually give the occasional quote from an athlete
only to lend their position some form of instant credibility.
With guys here like Bernstein, its even more flagrant. The shirt really doesn't leave much to question, nor would it be particularly insightful to follow up with interviews with Rose. He clearly spoke volumes with the shirt alone and any thinking person knows that. No one needs to hear Bernstein's or Sam Smith's thoughts to otherwise risk not "hearing" it from Rose.
But Bernstein wants to continue to be polarizing, "edgy" and the "voice of the thinking
fan". He wants cheap laughs at Derrick "the guy too stupid to safely cut an apple"/"too dumb to get a qualifying score on the SAT"/"the guy controlled by everyone around him to the point he won't listen to REALLY. SMART. GUYS."/"too stupid to understand the point he himself is making". We all get it, but Bernstein's grown tiresome and his motives have to be called into question. Frankly it's reminiscent of his hostility with Lovie over his failure to provide sound bites "to speak to the fans".
As an aside, there is a parallel for all to see with Lovie & DRose over Dan's anger over their lack of public expression and/or arrogance, no? But I'll leave that one alone for now.
It's irritatingly Bernstein's go to bitch and moan favorite now to complain how athletes don't understand that "he/they" are the chosen conduit to the fans. Which generally is no longer true & hasn't been in decades. It is at least when he isn't operating as a company man regurgitating what his "team insider" has given him. Or conveniently forgetting his long held positions that magically have transformed with his bullshit new "enlightenment" that he feels compelled to push over the airwaves.
And consider this for what it's worth, Bernstein doesn't allow comments on any of his threads, was probably the worst show host poster around here and is too thin skinned (& intellectually shallow) to really allow criticism on his twitter site. He increasingly is only willing to engage in actual discussions when he has absolute control over the forum.
But he wants to joyously give Rose crap for understandably not wanting to talk to the media members (often like him) who seem to gleefully look to ridicule him at every turn. Since it "moves meters".
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