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Dale Hansen Unplugged

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Any thoughts on Dale Hansen's comments last night about the Jerry Jones tape ?

I say that the News/Sports media could use a lot more of that kind of thinking.

There'd be a lot less salacious crap presented as news....
 
Dale was right on target and hypocritical at the same time.
I agree with pretty much everything he said. However, you can't complain about local media not running embarrassing stories on powerful people while demanding that an embarrassing story about a powerful person not be run. You just can't have it both ways.

It's a stupid story. We all know Jerry gets drunk and shoots his mouth off. So what. His comments about Tebow were the only mildly newsworthy. If anything the video might get Jerry in trouble with the league. Maybe for that reason alone just simply running a clip to acknowledge what happened is suffice.
 
Dale was on target. The question is.....how many here would have been as kind to a guy who had fired you from a good gig? ;)
 
I think what Dale was trying to say was that the media outlets will gladly humiliate a "public figure" unless that public figure was one of their own.

Love him or hate him (there seems to be no in-between), Hansen is a damn good speaker.
 
NealH said:
I think what Dale was trying to say was that the media outlets will gladly humiliate a "public figure" unless that public figure was one of their own.

Love him or hate him (there seems to be no in-between), Hansen is a damn good speaker.
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Oh, I don't know.... I like Hansen's bombastic style of pontificating about as much as I like Rush Limbaugh's or Bill O'Reilly's .... And I don't listen to either one !

I LISTEN TO MICHAEL SAVAGE ! ! ! ! ! :D
 
His remarks were dead-on but they came from the wrong mouthpiece. Dale is the patron saint of local celebrity conduct and news business integrity? Not hardly.

The Jerry tape wasn't news. It was pure sleaze and gratuitous emptyness with some swear words sewn throughout. For "respectable" local news sources to lead with it was Twitter/Facebook/Idiocracy-inspired TMZ sorts of conduct.
 
I don't think there is any question it was newsworthy. A local big business owner says he made a significant change in his business practices to court the Arlington tax payer. And once he received his local government handout, he went back to biz as usual. That is worth knowing if you live in Arlington. There isn't much you can do about it, but it's worth knowing all the same.

And what if this was three years ago, and Jerry Jones, as GM of an NFL team, said Vince Young could never get on the field in Dallas. Would Dale Hansen cover it then? You know he would have.

Florida TV stations probably jumped on the Tebow angle with no regrets.

And here's Dale lecturing his news dept. on journalism? Puh-leeze. Sports anchors, writers and reporters don't do any more journalism than a movie reviewer. They report on entertainers and tell you how well they performed. They play in the sandbox with plastic shovels and buckets far away from the more serious work.
 
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