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Mainstream media malfeasance – again
By Zach Arnold | April 2, 2006
By Zach Arnold
Last week, we linked to an article in USA Today that lumped Toughman boxing with MMA. It hit a real nerve with readers, and I was afraid that the USA Today would snowball into more stupidity. And it has.
Today’s USA Today editorial/opinion feedback section has a letter from “Bud Stuart” of Santa Barbara, California that refers to boxing & MMA as human cockfighting and calls for a ban of all combat sports. Click on the link up above to read the letter in full.
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Other than the fact that this is “news” to a small group of us who read sites like this: what is the virtue of pointing out the extreme ignorance of mainstream writers on a weekly basis?
You have to take these types of media outlets seriously considering their circulation, specifically USA Today & The Wall Street Journal, which both have published bad articles recently on the business.
Well I take the articles serious enough to have written dozens of emails in protest, and never received a reply. I’ve gone so far as call 2 editors and a writer at the Las Vegas Star after a defamatory article they ran about UFC fans back in 2004. Taking these mainstream displays of ignorance seriously by definition should probably mean at some point organizing a systemic mobilization to affect change.
Your reasoning has given me some interesting ideas. Let’s see what kind of response we can get from writers. 🙂