I never really believed in "fake news" but when my husband said he saw this on the front page of CNN, I had to see it for myself. When he read me the headline I said, that sounds like an opinion piece. However, the headline on the FRONT PAGE OF CNN was under "NEWS". I started writing this over 8 hours ago and due to the funeral coverage, it's no longer on the front page. But, this is the "News" piece I was talking about. UN-FUCKING BELIEVABLE:
Urban Meyer Leaves Another Program Disgraced—and It Won't Be His Last
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I'm assuming this is the article he was talking about. It is an opinion piece but it wasn't advertised as such. Plus it's complete BULLSHIT.
There are three people that presently or previously lived in Florida and wrote for major news organizations that covered Florida sports (the 3Ms): Matt Hayes, Mike Bianchi, and Mike Freeman.
All three had expressed vitriol towards Ohio State during Tressel's tenure, or at Urban for his tenure at Florida, or both. Freeman in particular was public enema #1 15 years ago because he thought 2002 Miami was the greatest team in the history of college football and they were robbed by Ohio State and Terry Porter.
This article referenced was written by Matt Hayes, once a nationally syndicated columnist for the Sporting News that was laid off two years ago and now is a senior editor for Bleacher Report, which is a CNN property. Matt Hayes does not, and has not ever, written fact-based news stories. He writes op-eds.
He's a bitter, cynical cock sucker with an axe to grind because he hasn't liked Urban for ten years as a Florida grad. Take that for what it's worth.
Not to get political, but this is symptomatic of all modern news outlets today. It's universal... whether it's CNN or FOX or ABC or Yahoo! Sports. People don't differentiate between news and op-ed anymore, because news orgs themselves no longer pretend to differentiate between content that is news vs op-ed. Maybe news desks never did. Hell, maybe we're all just dumber in the Internet age.
I dunno. I never needed my hand held if I got triggered by Dear Abby giving bad relationship or medical advise in her syndicated column in the 80s, because I knew exactly what her column was before I read it.