OWN Orders Doc Series on Footballer Michael Sam

[DaChampIsHere]

ESPN showing him kissing cake off his mans mouth all weekend was an example of them "shoving shyt down our throats"...
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I'm sure if no one truly wanted to watch that and ESPNs ratings and web hits went down because of showing it the first time, they would not have replayed it.

I don't watch ESPN like that, but fact is, the media is only gonna make and re-hash stories that are getting a lot of hits/attention. It does them no good (as far as getting good ratings to sell ads) to keep playing something that people don't like.

Y'all can say that y'all hate Michael Sam being shown, but the fact of the matter is, by talking about it more, even from a dislike perspective, you draw attention to it, make others aware of it, they get to Googling themselves to find more information or a link is provided by the person speaking about it, and more hits for ESPN or whoever on their Michael Sam story. In their web analytics, it's showing as a hot story, why wouldn't they keep playing it? It'd be stupid not to if you're in the business of making money.

If you don't like something, the quickest way to get it off the TV, papers, major websites, etc. is really just to STOP talking about it. Because even when you express negativity about it, you're still talking about it, and generating interest on the subject and making that whole flow of events happen even though you don't even like the story.

Whether negatively or positively, people truly LIKE talking about Michael Sam (and gay people in general), so yeah, the stories won't stop about Sam or gays because people like talking about those subjects.

 

[Da King]

Scrutiny from the media? everyone is kissing ass if they speak against it they will be fired

Exactly, even look at this faq the wrong way and they'll be out the league

 

[OG Talk]

I'm sure if no one truly wanted to watch that and ESPNs ratings and web hits went down because of showing it the first time, they would not have replayed it.

I don't watch ESPN like that, but fact is, the media is only gonna make and re-hash stories that are getting a lot of hits/attention. It does them no good (as far as getting good ratings to sell ads) to keep playing something that people don't like.

Y'all can say that y'all hate Michael Sam being shown, but the fact of the matter is, by talking about it more, even from a dislike perspective, you draw attention to it, make others aware of it, they get to Googling themselves to find more information or a link is provided by the person speaking about it, and more hits for ESPN or whoever on their Michael Sam story. In their web analytics, it's showing as a hot story, why wouldn't they keep playing it? It'd be stupid not to if you're in the business of making money.

If you don't like something, the quickest way to get it off the TV, papers, major websites, etc. is really just to STOP talking about it. Because even when you express negativity about it, you're still talking about it, and generating interest on the subject and making that whole flow of events happen even though you don't even like the story.

Whether negatively or positively, people truly LIKE talking about Michael Sam (and gay people in general), so yeah, the stories won't stop about Sam or gays because people like talking about those subjects.

I don't see what any of this has to do with what I wrote, but cool I guess...

 

[DaChampIsHere]

I don't see what any of this has to do with what I wrote, but cool I guess...

You said they were shoving it down our throats. I am just saying, it's not really a shove since you/people obviously LIKE talking about it.

 

[OG Talk]

You said they were shoving it down our throats. I am just saying, it's not really a shove since you/people obviously LIKE talking about it.

Okay I got ya... Fair enough...

But to be clear Michael Sam himself isn't an interesting story to me at all.. My fascination all comes from how the media covers him...

 

[Trip]

You said they were shoving it down our throats. I am just saying, it's not really a shove since you/people obviously LIKE talking about it.

Because people sensed he was a phony from the jump. Looks like they were right.

 

[Basaglia]

While y'all crying, I'mma be buying up all his auto rookies on the off chance that he's actually GOOD. Because if he's good...if only for a couple of games, those cards value will skyrocket.

I missed out on the Jeremy Lin mega-cyse, but I refuse to not get paid off this.

 

[MAKAVELI25]

Because people sensed he was a phony from the jump. Looks like they were right.

What exactly is "phony" about Michael Sam?

 

[Lakers Offseason]

"This is a great idea" - says nobody from the Rams organizations

 

[Trip]

What exactly is "phony" about Michael Sam?

Well the whole I want to be known as just a football and not just the gay football player thing. Oprah had already been filming him...she had cameras at his draft party with the cake incident. The whole thing has been scripted from the jump.

 

[Lakers Offseason]

Funny thing media was attacking aj mccarron for his reality show with Katherine webb, but its OK if your gay

If you criticize it, you'l be called a bigot

 

[Captain Crunch]

Get that money my gay nikka

 

[mozichrome]

"This is a great idea" - says nobody from the Rams organizations

he's shooting this on his own free time
and OWN has no access to Rams facilities. there should be no problem with them

 

[Real]

It's gonna be funny when that nikka gets cut

 

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

Let that boy cook and get those checks.

That NFL money doesn't last long.

Do you nikkas even have OWN or know what channel that shyt is on? Because I sure as hell don't