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| Media Attack on Bob Knight |
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
Even when you accept major media outlets (an indeed most media outlets) make their money off ads, is still amazing how hard and how long they can beat a dead horse. We went from the old days of 35 minutes of new in one hour and prorgressed to CNN's model of about 2 hours of new in 24 hours and that's about where it has stopped. Becase now istead of filling up the time with the news loop its filled up with opinions.
All day I have been hearing about the Bob Knight slap on Michael Prince. This is my opinion.
- Michael Prince is an adult.
- Bob Knight is an adult.
- Michael Prince has no problem with the event.
- Bob Knight has no problem with the event.
- There is no story.
Have people really become that soft? It seems so and the media keeps trying make us more fickle and glandular. These days it start when kids are young being fed sugar candy cartoon coated stories instead of working with or for their parent and doing basic chores and continues all the way through college where they are dropped into hyper protective intstitutional systems that are more and more afraid of the students and disallowed from practicing discipline and finishes when the kids leave high school or college and have no basic math skills or common sense.
Bob Knight makes winners. He may go over the top on occasion, but he makes winners and goes the extra yard to see that his players play to the best of their potential. We need more teachers like that and stricter discipline in the schools. Basically, Dr. Spock was wrong and the world need to stop acting like he was right. |
posted by Domesticated Dog @ 11:33 PM   |
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