This Week's EPIC FAIL: Jill Painter From The Daily News (Whines About Neuheisel Not Talking Pregame Smack)
by Nestor on Sep 8, 2009 4:02 PM PDT
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Well take Jill Painter from the Daily News as the latest exhibit of idiocy in traditional media. Ms. Painter is upset because Rick Neuheisel and his players didn't serve her up any bulletin board material heading into this weekend's game.
Last night while excerpting Rick Neuheisel's press conference in which he did the right thing by staying classy and offering up nothing disrespectful to the Tennessee Volunteers, I wrote "Neuheisel's UCLA Gears Up For Tennessee By Offering Zero Bulletin Board Material." I was actually thinking about how Neuheisel's straight forward non-controversial statement would leave reporters who make a living off writing sensationalist stories disappoiinted.
Sure enough Jill Painter from the Daily News bit today. She wrote up a stupid report with the breathless header, "UCLA will do talking on field," the following (again no link for garbage writeups here on BN):
UCLA undoubtedly huddled about not inciting Volunteers fanatics any more than possible. The Bruins are not providing any bulletin board material, but they're going a little overboard in their praise for the Volunteers, their stadium and anything orange.
They're already in awe of Neyland Stadium, and they should be but they could play that a little closer to coach Rick Neuheisel's famous vest.
They've yet to be serenaded by 200 renditions of "Rocky Top." They should be more than annoyed soon enough.
How about a little bravado? Just a touch. A teensy swagger. Act like they've been to Knoxville before even though none of these kids have. The way UCLA is talking, you would think it lost to Tennessee last year. The Bruins beat the Vols 27-24 at the Rose Bowl in 2008, but Tennessee has won seven of the 12 meetings in the series.
Get it. Painter is upset that CRN and his players are staying respectful and not offering up doozies like the ones from LeGarrette Blout before the Boise State game.
Oh and BTW there is nothing in her report that substantiate the headline which infers that UCLA players and coaches are throwing around smack about how they will do their "talking on field." Only thing she offers up is a lame reference to a more lame NYT article entitled "the Blabber Bowl" and then saying how she is hoping for more trash talk heading into Saturday:
The New York Times dubbed this game the "Blabber Bowl" since Lane Kiffin and Neuheisel have sparked controversy with flammable words before. They've yet to start blabbing about this game.
Everyone is playing too nicely.
So in other words while Neuheisel and his players are going by the book in terms of saying all the right things before a big game, but they are not good enough for self-centered reporters who are looking for anything to write up a sensationalist hit pieces to get both sides going and drive up their web traffic.
Just another example of why sports reporting is considered to be the probably the most worthless profession in America.
Jill Painter. Epic Fail.
GO BRUINS.
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When writers get nothing
and have to print something, this is the drivel you get.
And “nothing” is exactly what CRN and the team should be giving. Nothing except quiet praise for the opponent.
What do these tools expect?
For us to come out and predict a victory, just because we won last year?
Can you just imagine if Rahim sat at the table and proclaimed, “The color orange makes me sick! Just like Cardinal and Gold. We can’t wait to get to Knoxville and run them like we did last year. Where is Knoxville, anyway? I can’t wait to kick me some Redneck Ass and remind those boys the Confederates lost the Civil War.”
This isn’t Ali pimping his fight with Frazier. Or the WWF. This is college football and the Jill Painters of the world should stop hoping that someone is going to provide an opponent with added incentive to win a college football game, by spewing some wild bravado.
Find some other angle and actually earn your meager paycheck for once.
by Bald Eagle on Sep 8, 2009 4:22 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Seriously
With the access she has to the coaches, she could have easily written something compelling. She could have easily interviewed Vinney and ask his thoughts about matching up against Tennessee receivers and getting put on the spotlight.
She could have explored the story about Brehaut getting snaps and give us explanation of the decision making process of Chow/CRN.
She could have talked about Chow v. Kiffin matchup. Instead she comes w garbage that could have been written by a high school level reporter in 15 mins. Simply unbelievable how hectackular these reporters have become. What a joke.
Writers like this...
When I see articles like this, I really think the blogosphere needs to take up a collection to try to buy Michael Schur (aka Ken Tremendous) away from NBC in order to restart FJM. Oh, how I miss that site’s penchant for tearing apart and/or outright mocking the pathetic output of the sportswriting world.
In other "journalistic news"
TJ Slimers slammed UCLA repeatedly today in a column about…the Chargers. Yes, in a column about how great the Chargers will be this year, he found a way to work in numerous insults of UCLA.
And how dare you all think the LAT is biased against UCLA!
TJ
I think what would be great is if one of these days a BNer approaches him with a flipcam and then just start asking him questions about his credentials. Start asking him about how the heck he manage to flunk freaking NIU? Start ask him why he thinks his family is germane topic of discussion in a sports page of a major metropolitan newspaper.
Ask him those questions in a very straight forward way and then get the idiot to flip out on youtube. It will be perfect.
This is why the only "paper" I subscribe to is the BN.
Nobody on the BN gets paid to write. With a few exceptions, EVERYBODY writes better than the LA media. There is more research done here in a day than gets done by the fishwrap in a month. What’s remarkable about that is that there are companies like the Elias Sports Bureau who can find you any stat in about 15 seconds. All the press has to do is to use its imagination for a minute, and they can come up with an angle, and Elias or one of its counterparts can come up with the stats to make an interesting article. But that would be too much work. Let’s just go to a press conference, listen to what the coach said, get some free food, then go write about what you wish he had said. (Or don’t go to the presser, and just make it up.)
This is what the first rudimentary mammals must have been looking at things like the Fishwraposaurus started disappearing at an increasing rate. I think it would be fitting if the fishwrap would relocate to the La Brea Tar Pits, so future anthropologists and archeologists can more easily find their fossil records.
Sorry Nestor,
I forgot that we were not going to tell Fox that all of the rest of us were getting paid.
My bad.
sjh
Painter wants it both ways
She wants UCLA to basically guarantee a victory at Tennessee, but if UCLA loses that ball game you can be sure that she, TJ Simers and other media members would rip the program for arrogance, etc.
I like the way we are handling our business
Our play will indeed speak for itself on the field. UCLA learned that it doesn’t matter what you did the week before, anything is possible. Focus on one opponent at a time and show respect to them. Do you think Oregon learned something this past week? “Those guys deserve an ass whuppin.” – Legarette Blount
Rahim Moore channeled the exact attitude we should have…in front of the cameras and media. I hope (and know) that our guys are chomping at the bit to prove that we can hang with the SEC. Funny how we still didn’t get much respect from last year’s victory…even though Tennessee had a better year in the “rough and tumble” SEC.
Shame on you, Jill. There are a thousand story lines prior to this game, and you choose this?
Ironic
In the midst of Sportsmanship Week and of an embarrassing incident for the Pac-10, we’re criticized for… being classy.
by HailRover on Sep 8, 2009 10:06 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
You Beat Me To It
I saw the same irony; the same folks that were outraged by the ultimate result of smack now crave it as the only angle they can use for a story.
Just think
If Brett Farve became a reporter for the daily news, he might be asking CRN questions…
"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"
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