NBC Sports reports KU gets 2-year NCAA tournament ban
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Hmm, not on ESPN or twitter. Looking.
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Yeah the link you posted is bullcrap.
This is the “story”
The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport.
The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport. The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport. The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport.
The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport. The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport.
The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport.The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport. The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport. The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport. The Jayhawks blah blah blah, Bill Self to the NBA, blah blah blah, football now school’s top sport.
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Not on the NBC sports mens’ bb page.
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mayjay said:
Not on the NBC sports bb page.
It’s completely fake.
We need @Crimsonorblue22 or @approxinfinity to change the title so no one gets confused.
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@bskeet I’m guessing the third one. I haven’t been able to find anything anywhere to corroborate that headline.
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Yeah-- it is clearly bogus. But the reason/motivation is curious.
I think it might be Apple News that did this… but it is attributed to NBC Sports… so this is a fairly interesting mistake.
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@BShark I can change the thread title… what do you propose?
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@bskeet Just delete it, would be my choice. It is just stupid since no adjudication has occurred anyway.
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Idk if he can delete the thread @mayjay
As for the motivation @bskeet it could be someone that just hates KU or even hates Embiid given the timing.
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I can delete it. However, someone sent this to me and thought it was real. They only read the headline.
I took a look before I posted and thought it would be intriguing to this community.
This certainly illustrates the allure of misinformation and explains how false information can spread faster than the truth. The online business model for publishers is based on impressions or views. The more clicks and the more shares an article gets, the more views, ergo the more revenue. So, creating misinformation is actually a profitable business… to the tune of at least $235 million last year from content intentionally created to mislead news consumers and defraud advertisers.
That would not count this type of content which appears to be a mistake. So when you put all the mistakes and intentionally misleading content together with all the content that’s biased, quasi-accurate, etc. etc. you have our current information ecosystem. A toxic cesspool of noise mixed with signal that is creating a more confused and more anxious society.
I’ll step off the soapbox.
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Oh, and be careful out there.
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Back on the soapbox for a moment: If this had happened 25 years ago in a print publication, there would be the risk of a lawsuit for libel or slander.
There is no libel or slander on the internet. With the occasional exception of threats of explicit violence, anyone can say anything with impunity. And messages on the internet reach a global audience.
Paradoxically, protections against damaging content from irresponsible publishers was far greater when the audience was limited by how far the circulation trucks could travel to deliver the publication.
Who knows how many people end up seeing this gaff by Apple news or NBC Sports or whoever? And who knows how this influences their perception of Self, of Kansas Basketball, or of Kansas University.
But there is no consequence for the publisher, no matter what the harm is to the victim.
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@bskeet Right, “Trump attacks media, rants about claimed bias” OR “Trump champions impartial, fact based reporting”
We get 95% the former in the mainstream media, and 5% the latter.
This fake news is no different. Except that we all recognize this as “fake.”
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We all can see that an article filled with “blah blah blah” is bogus. The problem is the abundance of specious content on the internet, and the fact that it’s rewarding to create such content. In fact, the more deceiving the content, the more likely it is profitable.
Trump is, indeed, exploiting the fact that the information ecosystem is polluted.
And while that is true, is it ethical or in the best interest of the citizens for a leader to exacerbate the problem?
I guess if we could ever see his tax returns, we would likely see a guy who has exploited tax codes and financial loopholes with reckless abandon, so why would this be any different.
My point wasn’t political, because the damage from misinformation is indiscriminate and non-partisan… but yes, misinformation is often embedded in such partisan content because that stirs emotions and stokes controversy.
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HighEliteMajor said:
@bskeet Right, “Trump attacks media, rants about claimed bias” OR “Trump champions impartial, fact based reporting”
We get 95% the former in the mainstream media, and 5% the latter.
This fake news is no different. Except that we all recognize this as “fake.”
Snorts from laughter*
Yes, Trump is the champion of honesty and transparency.
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HighEliteMajor said:
@bskeet Right, “Trump attacks media, rants about claimed bias” OR “Trump champions impartial, fact based reporting”
We get 95% the former in the mainstream media, and 5% the latter.
This fake news is no different. Except that we all recognize this as “fake.”
Trump thinks any article that doesn’t give him a beej under his desk is fake news. Or should I say John Barron? David Dennison? I forget which fake name he uses these days to plant garbage stories.
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I can’t purge it
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Kcmatt7 said:
HighEliteMajor said:
@bskeet Right, “Trump attacks media, rants about claimed bias” OR “Trump champions impartial, fact based reporting”
We get 95% the former in the mainstream media, and 5% the latter.
This fake news is no different. Except that we all recognize this as “fake.”
Snorts from laughter*
Yes, Trump is the champion of honesty and transparency.
I’m not a Trump defender. So not the point. He has been under constant attack from every mainstream media source except for one. The mainstream media as a left wing engine of propaganda creates most of the problems. If the faults, dishonesty, etc from both sides were treated the same way, we’d have a much different discourse right now. Hey that’s far from the case.
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HighEliteMajor said:
Kcmatt7 said:
HighEliteMajor said:
@bskeet Right, “Trump attacks media, rants about claimed bias” OR “Trump champions impartial, fact based reporting”
We get 95% the former in the mainstream media, and 5% the latter.
This fake news is no different. Except that we all recognize this as “fake.”
Snorts from laughter*
Yes, Trump is the champion of honesty and transparency.
I’m not a Trump defender. So not the point. He has been under constant attack from every mainstream media source except for one. The mainstream media as a left wing engine of propaganda creates most of the problems. If the faults, dishonesty, etc from both sides were treated the same way, we’d have a much different discourse right now. Hey that’s far from the case.
In most cases he’s deserved it. But I agree with the double standard piece. Most recent example: Katie Hill.
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Imagine if Katie Hill were a 64 year old white man how the coverage would have changed. No denying that.
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BShark said:
Imagine if Katie Hill were a 64 year old white man how the coverage would have changed. No denying that.
My position is she absolutely broke House rules and deserved to be expelled or resign and whoever leaked the photos should be prosecuted.
We have a counterfactual here. Check the Joe Barton case from awhile ago. He resigned quietly and nobody cared. For basically the same thing. Turns out nobody wants to look at n00dz of a 70 year old guy. Also Newt got run from the House for banging a staffer while married. He’s married to her now but doesn’t change the breach of the rules.
Moral of the story: don’t screw your subordinates. Just don’t. Like ever. This isn’t hard. Just don’t f*** the people you hire. Especially when it’s A) DEFINITELY against House rules. I was lectured about it each Congress I worked. And
likely a federal crime depending on how you read the statute. And C) DONT HAVE AN AFFAIR WITH YOUR EMPLOYEE MY GODS
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@FarmerJayhawk to be clear I meant the having sex with your underlings part and not the nudes leak part. I don’t even remember the guy you referenced here.
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BShark said:
@FarmerJayhawk to be clear I meant the having sex with your underlings part and not the nudes leak part. I don’t even remember the guy you referenced here.
Exactly. To me it’s more a people like to check out photos of a hot 30something Member than a 70 year old dude.
I do think if someone like Rep. Stefanik from NY (married to a KU grad) did the same thing the press would go thermonuclear over the GOP’s problem with morality.
I don’t think the press is explicitly out for GOP blood. I think they unconsciously find center-right people weird and think any transgression among “the other” is news while the same acts by a center-left person is business as usual. It’s not malicious, just tribal.
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FarmerJayhawk said:
BShark said:
@FarmerJayhawk to be clear I meant the having sex with your underlings part and not the nudes leak part. I don’t even remember the guy you referenced here.
Exactly. To me it’s more a people like to check out photos of a hot 30something Member than a 70 year old dude.
I do think if someone like Rep. Stefanik from NY (married to a KU grad) did the same thing the press would go thermonuclear over the GOP’s problem with morality.
I don’t think the press is explicitly out for GOP blood. I think they unconsciously find center-right people weird and think any transgression among “the other” is news while the same acts by a center-left person is business as usual. It’s not malicious, just tribal.
Sorry, it is entirely malicious.
