Rodgers Wants Out

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Packinatl said:
The media term is "if it bleeds it leads". been that way for decades
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Yes it has been that way. I worked for a media source for a couple of years, and built up a huge following for my work. I built it by using an "in your face" type of reporting on upcoming games, then making predictions. Since I had guest predictors working as well, and I was beating them week after week, and in the 75% range, the service wanted me to use deeper hooks to rope in readers. Like Pack said. "If it bleeds, it leads."

I tried it for a few weeks, and decided it wasn't for me, and it wasn't increasing the clicks, and readers. So, I went back to what I had been doing, and the numbers continued to grow. Eventually, the people above me started "suggesting" how I should write my headlines. They suggested it was "more than a suggestion." So, I suggested they should shove the job where to sun don't shine. I was not about to go that route. Within a few months, the person who took over lost the whole damned thing for them. When they contacted me about coming back, and offering decent money, I told them they could still stick it.

There's one thing that's guided me over the years, and came from the past. My Dad always told me that the adage; "To thine own self be true.," was how you reach the end of the road without compromising who you are. I try to live by that. I may stray, but when I do, it comes back to me, and I work on correcting course.

As I think Mark and a couple of others will attest, I'm pretty good at picking head to head winners in college and the NFL.
 
Mark87 said:
Why? Because he chooses to get the most clicks and capitalize on an opportunity. If this was any other team no one here would really care.
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because he sat on the story for weeks and then released it at the worst possible time for everyone involved. that makes him an a-hole in my book.
 
I think people are conflating issues with the timing of Schefter releasing this report - yet another example of ESPN creating its own story lines to drive traffic - and the veracity of his reports. Several other legitimate journalists have confirmed the essential elements of Schefter's report - that Rodgers wants out and that he's pissed at Gute.

The fact that Schefter waiting to drop that bombshell on the eve of the league's biggest event of the offseason is just smart timing from an eyeballs standpoint, but I think he should have come out and said that the timing of the release had nothing to do with Rodgers or the Packers - that he had been building up information, and chose to report it in light of the 49ers dangling the #3 pick for Rodgers.
 
realitybytes said:
because he sat on the story for weeks and then released it at the worst possible time for everyone involved. that makes him an a-hole in my book.
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If I was a betting man ESPN sat on it. The Disney PR machine is one of the best in the business. And if they had any intel that someone else was going to run with it your damn right they dictated the timing
 
44blitz said:
I think people are conflating issues with the timing of Schefter releasing this report - yet another example of ESPN creating its own story lines to drive traffic - and the veracity of his reports. Several other legitimate journalists have confirmed the essential elements of Schefter's report - that Rodgers wants out and that he's pissed at Gute.

The fact that Schefter waiting to drop that bombshell on the eve of the league's biggest event of the offseason is just smart timing from an eyeballs standpoint, but I think he should have come out and said that the timing of the release had nothing to do with Rodgers or the Packers - that he had been building up information, and chose to report it in light of the 49ers dangling the #3 pick for Rodgers.
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the 49ers never offered the number 3 that was Paul Allen of the Vikings making crap up with his so called sources that don't exist. Everyone has confirmed no offer was ever made.
 
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