Squanto wrote:
You comparison is a poor one.
For a magic show, you expect to be deceived 100% of the time. (Unless you're watching that show that explains how the tricks are done. :p )The deception is part of the allure.
With hockey NEWS, emphasis on the NEWS, that shouldn't be the case. Before the lockout, which is when the overwhelming majority of these fake rumor mills started popping up, you didn't have to sort through the bullshit. If a reporter said that the Sabres were interested in going after player X, you knew that they were trying to do just that. If something wasn't true, it didn't get reported.
Today, that's just not the case. Every time there is a report about a player from anyone that isn't TSN's hockey staff, you have to trace it back to it's source to consider the legitimacy, and more often than not it traces back to a college kid with a twitter account. I, for one, am too busy to spend time making value judgements on the veracity of every bullshit rumor that surfaces. If there is no news, THEN DON'T REPORT ANYTHING. What's the point of news for the sake of news?
If you want to talk about possibilities, then ok. There's forums like this one for that. But keep the bullshit out of the news cycle. It shouldn't be there.
The reason these things get reported now is because of the simplicity it is to make a rumor now. Before the lockout smart phones weren't in everyone's hands, and the internet wasn't as widespread as it is now.
It's too bad that there are so many rumors out there, but it's fun to speculate on if we got that player at all.
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CriminallyVu1gar wrote:
No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.
Rud wrote:
As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.