I'm Getting Sick Of This!

[UNHWildCats]

Everytime some football player gets in trouble these days the headline of subheadline mentions he was a former Patriot if he was a former Patriot... as if he wasnt a former player of any other team.

Todays exhibit is Donte Stallworth


Browns WR Stallworth hits, kills Fla. pedestrian
Former Patriot hit man crossing Miami Beach causeway at 7 a.m.


http://nbcsportsmedia1.msnbc.com/i/msnbc/Components/Sources/Art/APTRANS.gif updated 27 minutes ago

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Police in Miami Beach say Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth has hit and killed a pedestrian with his Bentley.

Police spokesman Juan Sanchez says Stallworth hit a man crossing the busy causeway that links downtown Miami with Miami Beach around 7 a.m. Saturday.

The man was pronounced dead at a trauma center. He was near a crosswalk but it’s not clear if he was crossing legally.

[minuteman65]

First off, that doesn't seem like a safe place to be walking.

Secondly, I agree that it's ridiculous to identify him as a Patriot, seeing as how he spent more time with NO and Philly, and barely even contributed for us. I guess that's the price of being the envy of the NFL.

[GannonFan]

Oh stop it - the Pats haven't won a Super Bowl in almost 5 years, - there are plenty of teams that have played better football since then - the envy isn't anywhere as strong as it was when the Pats were actually winning titles. They mention that he's a former Patriot because he played with the Pats two years ago when the Pats got tons of press chasing the perfect season before the Giants won the title. For the casual sports fan (not on these boards) they may actually know Stallworth only from then. And besides, who's to say the AP people doing the story aren't from the New England area and put their own spin on it?

[I Bleed Purple]

uh, it's very common for local websites to localize AP stories. The ESPN story, which was taken straight from the AP, only mentions New England with the other teams he's played with.

Please tell us where you got that graphic from.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3980182

[UNHWildCats]

uh, it's very common for local websites to localize AP stories. The ESPN story, which was taken straight from the AP, only mentions New England with the other teams he's played with.

Please tell us where you got that graphic from.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3980182



MSNBC.... Hardly a local news source.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/29694639/

[Grizalltheway]

MSNBC.... Hardly a local news source.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/29694639/

Guess you'll just have to use Fox News from now on. xlolx

[I Bleed Purple]

same presser as the ESPN one. Guess they must have modified it.

[GeauxLions94]

http://dunamai.com/Humor/BagdadBob/images/bagdad_bob_large.gif

"Donte Stallworth NEVER played for the New Orleans Saints. That is a fact. He was never a first-round draft choice, the 13th pick in the 2002 NFL Draft, and didn't begin playing in the NFL until the 2006 season."

Seriously, hate to see this happening and Stallworth should be held accountable. Thoughts are with the family of the victim.

[blueballs]

UNHWildcats, I am glad in a off handed way you noticed this as this is a ploy liberals in the media have used for generations.

Riddle me this... when was the last time you saw one of the major media outlets identify a far left liberal politician as a far left liberal politician? Yet, you see right wing politicians branded as "far right," ultra conservative," radical right," etc. with regularity.

Another media ploy is branding and not branding when a politician has an ethics or law enforcement issue. Never once was Rostenkowski, Blago, Livingston, etc. identified in the mainstream media as "far left Democratic Senator Rostenkowski," or "Liberal Democratic Governor Blago," or "Liberal Denmocratic Rep. Livingston." However, when Sen Craig was accused of playing footsie in a bathroom he was widely identified as "Conservative GOP Sen Craig," or "Right Wing GOP Sen Craig," or The Powerful Conservative GOP Sen Craig."

What you identified is a very subtle but common form of media bias that is used more often than you'd ever guess; that is, unless you are aware of its use and look for it. You just caught it in a sports context instead of a political ideological one.

[UNHWildCats]

http://dunamai.com/Humor/BagdadBob/images/bagdad_bob_large.gif

"Donte Stallworth NEVER played for the New Orleans Saints. That is a fact. He was never a first-round draft choice, the 13th pick in the 2002 NFL Draft, and didn't begin playing in the NFL until the 2006 season."

Seriously, hate to see this happening and Stallworth should be held accountable. Thoughts are with the family of the victim.
to be fair we dont know the whole story, its just as likely the person who was hit was at fault and not Stallworth.

[UNHWildCats]

UNHWildcats, I am glad in a off handed way you noticed this as this is a ploy liberals in the media have used for generations.

Riddle me this... when was the last time you saw one of the major media outlets identify a far left liberal politician as a far left liberal politician? Yet, you see right wing politicians branded as "far right," ultra conservative," radical right," etc. with regularity.

Another media ploy is branding and not branding when a politician has an ethics or law enforcement issue. Never once was Rostenkowski, Blago, Livingston, etc. identified in the mainstream media as "far left Democratic Senator Rostenkowski," or "Liberal Democratic Governor Blago," or "Liberal Denmocratic Rep. Livingston." However, when Sen Craig was accused of playing footsie in a bathroom he was widely identified as "Conservative GOP Sen Craig," or "Right Wing GOP Sen Craig," or The Powerful Conservative GOP Sen Craig."

What you identified is a very subtle but common form of media bias that is used more often than you'd ever guess; that is, unless you are aware of its use and look for it. You just caught it in a sports context instead of a political ideological one.
I think part of that is most people look at all democrats as far left liberals while they do see a difference in the far right and the moderates of the GOP, so they tend to identify them that way.

[ElSissy]

I think part of that is most people look at all democrats as far left liberals while they do see a difference in the far right and the moderates of the GOP, so they tend to identify them that way.

When did you last see the media describe a moderate Republican as a moderate Republican?

[I Bleed Purple]

When did you last see the media describe a moderate Republican as a moderate Republican?

Utah's governor is described as that all the time.

[Skjellyfetti]

When did you last see the media describe a moderate Republican as a moderate Republican?

only 1,200 uses in the media in the past week:

http://news.google.com/news?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22moderate+republican%22&as_qdr=w&as_drrb=q

xlolx