Good... Omey The Would-be killah has about as much qualifications to be a beat writer as I do to be the heir apparent to the British Throne.
Worst thing is the other guys that are left don't really update much, so I have to put up with all his crap on Twitter to get a bit of info... I miss Ben Volin.
That's his shtik. He says things to rile the fans up so the read his garbage and follow him. He gets more threads on finheaven than any other reporter, so clearly people are reading his articles so he gets to keep his job. I would liken him more to that guy at the carnival that sits over a vat of water heckling the crowd while people hurl baseballs at him. There is always a big crowd surrounding that act and unfortunately that's what journalism is today.[/
This. Just stop reading his stuff and it will take care of itself. He's not fuming bc this guy just directly quoted him in a national webpage and put his name out there to a whole mess of new people. He is loving life right now I mean this is like 6 pages in two days about this man!!! Come on guys
Omar's piece was textbook content generation at a time when there's not much to talk about.
He laid up a negative observation, threw in a story of past experience to give it perspective, and then spent the bulk of the piece explaining every reason under the sun why this may not, and indeed probably does not, matter.
The diametric opposite of that would be tossing in a positive observation, throwing in a story of past experience to give it perspective, and then spending the rest of the article outlining caveats about why we should not necessarily get too excited about this yet.
Both are instances of content generation at a time when there's not a ton of content to be had and quite frankly I don't really see much that was wrong with Omar's piece other than I can tell he wrote it knowing he'd get negative attention but it didn't matter to him because attention is attention.
Rosenthal's piece on the other hand, there's not a lot for me to respect about it. I like him, but he wrote a piece that was a pure hit job. No attempt to be balanced whatsoever. And it's because the guys that are part of his group have beef with Omar (which may or may not be well deserved).
I don't know the source of their particular beef but if it derives from the first phrase I bolded then it would be pretty justified, no? Omar's throwing a little bit of Bayless out there because he knows what that does to his clicks. Not the full Bayless, but a bit.
Reason enough to say negative things, if you ask me.