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I'm from Germany and so i know & see, how soccer-journalists are working in Europe. For example: If there would be a surprising trading of Brandon Marshall, there would be at the same day 10-100 journalists in front of the Miami-Front-Office to get an answer. And they will get an answer - somehow. If the Manager won't say a word, they would phone all the players to get comments. Or they would go every day to Mrs. Ireland and bother her with questions, how she feel, that so many fans hate her man? There would be so much bothering in the surrounding of Ireland til he's thinking: Okay, i will talk to the press to stop this crap.
Maybe sometimes this is not the kindest way, but this is the work of a journalist: To find all the answers. A journalist has to accept the law and he has to tell the truth, that are the big borders. Do the best work, with all tricks, to get the best result: a good article, which no other have. or in one word: a NEWS!

European journalists would find a way to get the answers, to find the whole truth of the stories. They would have find already the truth, what happened in the Flynn-Case and in the Smith-Case. These playerss were both 24 hours in Miami. Have you read/hear any quote of them during their Miami-staying (except the two sentences of Smith BEFORE the meeting)? That would be in Europe unbelivable!!!

What are these journalists in Miami doing??? I have read a lot of articles in the last years and in the last weeks. It seems like, that the wannabe-journalists are working like the users of these forum. Watching ESPN & NFL-Network, and then writing the article. The articles are most times just opinions like forum-posts. If there is a quote, then they are in 95% of all cases quotes, which they heard in TV from other journalists. What are you, Armando & Omar & all the others? Are you journalists or just people, who make a recap of ESPN & NFL-Network? How often do you have a NEWS of the Dolphins first? Twice a year? In 365 days...

A local journalist must have his connections. He has to have the power to get statements from the important people.

Free Agency started 10 days ago. Today was the first day, when Ireland was saying te first word to the media. Is this a joke??? Or have you anything heard from Philbin in the last 10 days??? No! What is he thinking about the Brandon-trade, the new players, Flynn, Smith, Gerrard? No answers... but there wasn't any journalists, who were asking...

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Jeff Ireland is calling various media outlets today to share his viewpoint of what's going on with the Dolphins since the start of free agency and going forward.​
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A lot of times the Dolphins-Media-relationship reminds me to: The King is not talking to the crowd or he is only talking, when he wants to talk. Wrong way!!! The power of the media has to be so big, that the media decided, when they want answers.

If the whole media wants to have answers in important cases of the government, there will be fast answers. Why not in the NFL/Dolphins-world?

In good times, when the crowd is happy, like in the last years in New England, these No-King-Speech might work. But in bad times, like now with the Dolphins, the whole king-castle breaks together.

The Franchises need the media for promotion to sell tickets. NFL-Network is 24 hours promotion for the NFL - that the reason, why they are doing this. So the journalists have to find an agreement: You are talking to me, and we are writing about you.

Why aren't the front-office of the Dolphins explain their decisions??? We traded Marshall away, cause... We offered Flynn a contract, but Seattle makes him a (much) higher offer. We didn't make Smith an offer. The reason why we cut Bell is....
They don't have to tell secrets, what they will do in the draft & in the future. But they should explain the things, which they done.
But now most of the people are thinking: What are they doing?!?!?

To all the sport-writers in Miami: Be more aggressive!!! Do your JOB! Most times your articles look like, that you are laying at the beach of Hawaii, and get all your informations of the internet & TV.


Sorry for my broken English!!!
 
This is a great post and 100% true. It's a shame these people pass for journalists, and I've said this before. They all write editorials and put far too much personal opinion in their pieces, they need to get the answers period, and if they don't have actual answers they aren't supposed to guess.

Unfortunately with the advent of blogs true journalism is a dying breed. It's sad. Without real journalists too much wool can be pulled over the eyes. Hell look at our country and the misinformation the public has on what's going on in washington. Terrible journalism is a nationwide epidemic.
 
Totally agreed. Armando Salguero is a joke of a reporter, as is Omar Kelly. They are too busy trying to suck up to the GM and front office to call them out, or get the tough questions answered. A stop on their Twitter page and they're always acting like the fans are out of line for demanding answers.
 
Flynnsanity said:
Totally agreed. Armando Salguero is a joke of a reporter, as is Omar Kelly. They are too busy trying to suck up to the GM and front office to call them out, or get the tough questions answered. A stop on their Twitter page and they're always acting like the fans are out of line for demanding answers.
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I would argue the opposite, I feel they fuel the fans uninformed fire. They need to get real answers and report that. The problem is they can't just make uninformed opinions no matter what side they're leaning to
 
Business decision by the players as much as the general public believes their coach / gm to be incompetent they are also the people who do the hiring. GM's and coach are tight family within the NFL, talk bad about one and you talk bad about all.

Wanna guess where you next job is coming from after talking bad about your boss? Not the NFL baby; maybe for a greatly reduced paycheck if at all.

Players not talking is a business decision nothing more nothing less.
 
Totally agree. I live in south america and the same thing happens here. Is there a reason why nobody has talked to philbin?? why hasn't he spoke even one word to the press?? I'm really intrigued in what's going on with Philbin, and what he really believes about our latest moves. Or is the press prohibited from talking/calling coaches, try looking them in the parking of the dolphins facilities or something?? Or is it nfl rules??
 
No need to apologize for your "broken English" - it got the point across.

The short answer is that our media has gone complacent, taking the path of least resistance. They would rather be in someone else's good graces rather than taking a stand or being impartial.
 
A lot of good points OP.

Our media today is a mixed bag, some report facts with integrity (journalism for news), the others twist truths for profoundness, for personal agendas, or entertainment purposes (journalism for entertainment). The later seems to be in the majority for sure.
 
Americans in general (not all) are jerks. I don't expect anything less than what we've seen from the journalists all around this country
 
real truth is reportes in miami are worthless dicks and can't do there jobs rights.
 
I think that it is a soccer thing. The same thing happen here in Brazil. Every time something happens, a trade, a release, if someone misses a practice, there are 50 reporters out there trying to get a quote or brake a story. If you listen to Salguero´s podcast he is naive and makes excuses for the front office all the time while his co-host is bashing and demanding heads on spikes.
 
Barry Jackson now is on point!!! He gets the "meat and potatoes" information out there without any fuzz! The other articles like from Cote, Salgero, and others has for the most part like an bias in reporting. Feels like they are trying to make you think a certain way. But a lot of American Journalism has gone that way. Kudos to Barry!
 
WesternNYDolfan said:
I would argue the opposite, I feel they fuel the fans uninformed fire. They need to get real answers and report that. The problem is they can't just make uninformed opinions no matter what side they're leaning to
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I agree with this.

Armando and Hyde and most of the others do not even have the smallest desire to be unopinionated reporters of facts. Their job it seems is more about eliciting an emotional reaction than anything related to reporting facts.


Their MO is about stirring up a response, creating a 'buzz', getting 'chatter'. They go out of their way to exagerate and distort certain things to be as controversial as possible. Controversy is really what they focus on. It isn't just here though, most sports writers are this way.

The biggest difference is that the local sports writers here do not really know a whole lot about football. It seems like some of them don't watch the games either. They watch the games because it is their jobs not because they have any real love for football. Barry Jackson is head and shoulders above the rest in that he really seems to just report the facts or rumours that have a valid source, and he doesn't have an emotional agenda.
 
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