Can Fox Sports 1 Be Dawn of New Era for Media or Will it Be More of Same?

There are ample reasons why the majority of Americans fail to have confidence in a biased mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. According to a Gallup poll, fewer than 1/4 of American adults have "a great deal" of confidence in newspapers and television news. Whether they admit it or not, the recent sales of the Boston Globe and Washington Compost and pending peddling of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Slimes are additional signs of the apocalypse for the print media.

As for online entities, anyone want to take a bet about tiresome Tina Brown being at the helm when another media outlet runs aground regarding her stewardship of the Daily Beast? But at least Brown boasts a beastly charity ostensibly to "driving solutions that advance women and girls" although it spends the majority of funds raised with her "solution" throwing lavish parties for its director and connected friends.

A problem persists that the overwhelming majority of slanted reporters chronicling events big and small write through a liberal prism insulting our common sense and intelligence. The sports sandbox of the fourth-rate estate is cut largely from the same cloth complicit in the dumbing down of America. For instance, how else do you explain the widespread media support for troubled Ole Miss guard Marshall Henderson after his latest run-in with the law? Similarly, there is overkill on Kevin Ware's "House of Cards" comeback story stemming from a gruesome injury on TV for a Louisville backup guard averaging an anemic 3.3 points per game.

Actually, it only takes a few minutes assessing Twitter incest and the flock of fake followers to reveal much of the follow-the-pack press simply kissing each other's butt like a pack of puppies in a municipality without a dog catcher. Compare the content of the majority of the most popular college basketball websites and it's easy to discern they all virtually read the same. Where are the irascible and irreverent reporters bucking the system by circumventing all of the spin? A classic example of the shoddy storytelling was ESPN.com's HOF puff piece on coach Jerry Tarkanian conveniently letting ignorance linger by overlooking the excessive number of criminals he embraced in his programs. What's so difficult about aspiring to tell the whole tale rather than tailoring an account in order to get a high-five or interview at a ceremony?

Does the establishment media, boasting a veracity comparable to Pinnochio, really care about the integrity of college hoops? Frankly, it's a privilege, not a right, to compete as a college athlete. If more players were genuine students, they would comprehend the value of an education and analysts wouldn't be so obsessed with providing them additional "goodies." Thus it's disturbing to see the abysmal graduation ratios and coddling of suspended Henderson after his well-documented checkered past and recent drug-related travails.

You couldn't tell it from the genuine rodeo clowns in the press but something is wrong with the frequency of college basketball players running afoul of the law. Where are the provoking stories and commentary assessing how enforcing more rigorous academic standards could virtually eliminate this blight? What is being done to reduce the seemingly incessant number of "tough guys" tossing women around like rag dolls?

Held hostage by an Ariel Castro-like media as manipulative as Jodi Arias, the general public suffers from gullible glorification syndrome. When the lame-stream sports media is as incompetent as the general newsroom and editorial department, they foist athletic heroes upon the general public such as Lance Armstrong, Ryan Braun, Aaron Hernandez, Johnny "I Can Sign My Name" Manziel, Ray Rice, A-Roid, O.J. Simpson, Manti Te'o, Michael Vick and Tiger Woods. In basketball specifically, hoop media sycophants canonize tattooed Louisville coach Rick Pitino not long after his repulsive restaurant-closing porn-star tryout and Jimmy V is hailed endlessly in hypocritical history rewrites despite coach Valvano having two different schools - Iona and North Carolina State - vacate NCAA playoff participation.

By any measure, the puff-piece enemies of illumination fail to tell the entire story. The gutless wonders in the media aren't combative enough to explore an issue much beyond being a slobbering stenographer for the school. Who really believes Hall of Famer Pitino went directly from normal extracurricular activity for a leader of men to Hall of Shame extraordinary bumping and grinding in a public venue? Who has examined the number of suspect characters Pitino has had on his rosters such as Brandon Bender, Derrick Caracter, Richie Farmer, Carlos Hurt, Derrick Miller, Bryant Northern, Antoine Walker, Samaki Walker and Terrence Williams?

Getting rid of evidence (abortion) isn't confined to morally-bankrupt coaches. In an era of sexual gratification, how did Duke All-American J.J. Redick become so savvy he had an abortion contract with his flame as an NBA rookie? Has an enterprising sports reporter evaluated how many abortions have been sanctioned by college basketball coaches so female players could remain on the court and male players wouldn't be hampered by becoming deadbeat dads? No, not when the men's championship coach has an extortion trial, end-of-the-pack Kentucky Derby horse, limited-edition bourbon bottle, meaningful marlin, favorite son, testimonial tattoo, Lexus dealership and White House visit to cover.

The myopic media, responding like the NSA in the "least untruthful manner," caters to a low-information public susceptible to prejudging inflammatory comments such as "could have son who looked like me" from someone who ostensibly is supposed to be looking out for all the people. What is the ratio of the cherry-picking journalistic jewels referring to Trayvon Martin as a boy, child or kid compared to explanations citing reasons why Skittles was kicked out of his home and school?

A colossal collection of condescending clowns fail to comprehend the culture they've helped create is completely contemptible such as underwriting professional student Sandra Flukey's birth control into her 30s because she is too lazy to make arrangements to secure modestly-priced protection herself. How often does the media allow a retread such as Jesse striving to stay relevant to run in front of cameras for some diatribe but ignore the murders of children in his own Chicago backyard (a/k/a Dodge City)? As for college sports, the predictably pathetic press has allowed universities of lower learning to become little more than halfway houses for wayward youth.

The media, shackled by an amateurish historical perspective, should be detached from the subjects they cover but they almost never challenge them with any sort of confrontational style. Regrettably, that is the extent of how thin-skinned coaches such as Alabama's Lou "Don't Ask Me Any More (Football) Questions About This" Saban and the sports media view their roles. In such a lack-of-accountability atmosphere, North Carolina coach Roy Williams has no qualms announcing he's "tired of answering questions" about troubled P.J. Hairston. Why doesn't Williams, in the aftermath of a long-time academic tutor quitting in protest, really show who is in charge by prohibiting Hairston (subsequently suspended for the season) from taking any of those rigorous African-studies classes?

The familiar family-atmosphere refrain from father-figure coaches and administrators about "doing all they could to mentor and guide him" is nauseating. Is that distorted definition of "everything" all that fans and the media ask of them? Were the recruits genuine student-athletes in the first place? Wouldn't you love to see the laughable transcripts of the majority of the troublemakers?

At some point, the blatantly dishonest coaches and media, collaborating for a "Duck Dynasty" of sorts ducking the difficult questions and issues, need to look in the mirror about accountability. Petrified of being denied access, the hacks fail to yield more than baffling babbling. Eschewing ethics, morality and honor, the Pravda-like press impress anyone with a triple-digit IQ about as much as a MSLSD-round table featuring any of Outcast's Phil Pimping-lunatic lineup comprised of AllintheStank, Alec "Rude Pig" Baldfaceliar, The Sicko (featuring Foolre' and Mental "Eyewitness Exclusive" Stall), The Daily Dumbdown, Martin "The Defecator" Hotair (a/k/a Pipsqueak Brit With Brain Problems), Karen "Disturbed" Foolish, Blabbering Hall, RINO Joe, Katty "Contemptible" Kay, Down With Deceive WhoreHacky (a/k/a goofy game-show host wannabee), Rachel "Spreading Cyclical Depression" Madcow, Chrissy "Thrill Up My Leg" Softball (a/k/a "Gigglin' With Shrillary"), Ancient Mitchill, Mika the Myopic Mannequin (a/k/a "Inappropriate Touchdown" to Baghdad Bob Gibbs), Joyless Reid, Alex Twit, NowWithClueless, Sgt. "I Know Nothing" Schultz, Al "Not So" Sharpton (a/k/a "Resist We Much" and the "Mob Rat"), The Ass' Word or some hallucinating high-pitched hyphenated highbrow from academia Absurd Land so incredibly ignorant she believes the word "ObamaCare" is racist and reveled in mocking a defenseless black baby adopted by the Romney family. Does this human debris, exhibiting fewer ethical credentials than MSNBC's edifying weekend lineup of hardcore criminals or Commie-loving Van Jones as a host on CNN when it tried to revive Crossfire, illustrate the best, brightest and most honest our country can produce in the newsrooms? If so, God help us all.

How competent is the mess media when former CNN managing editor Mark Whitaker was so thorough in his Bill Cosby biography that it failed to adequately address transgression charges leveled against the comedian? NBC, which had a sitcom in development with Cosby prior to a series of sexual abuse accusations, certainly shouldn't restrict using a "psychological consultant" to Meet the Depressed personnel. Really, does anyone with an ounce of prime-time testosterone in their household watch depressive Rachel - whether or not butch drones on in a Washington Compost column promoting abortion - rather than an infinitely more vibrant Fox Megyn Kelly?

It might be unrealistic but will the advent of Fox Sports 1 help shake up things among the sports media? There's an opening for the fledgling network if ESPN continues making decisions such as exchanging a stump for a rump, dismissing loyal Howie Schwab before bringing back dismissive Keith Olbermann, a MSLSD reject "not high on list" of ex-Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson, a former Texas A&M hoopster. When do we formally start the "countdown" on "Drivin' Mr. Daisy" exhibiting those little traits making him a full-fledged facist "Worst Person in the World" nominee? Then, Jason Twitlock, who previously couldn't control his denigrating gun aimed at ESPN, rejoined the network and promptly did the dirty via a "couple inches of pain" directed at former Fox colleague Thayer Evans (now with SI). ESPN promptly called Twitlock on the carpet but didn't respond likewise regarding Olbermann for doing virtually the same thing to a New York reporter. Twitlock should reappear on Sports Reporters with Big Apple columnist Mike Lupica so we can hear a parting shot about the "Little Fella" being "an insecure, mean-spirited busybody." Will most of the African-American sports journalists selective Twitlock is supposed to nurture be like him? ESPN apparently doesn't boast much of a background check process after having Philly columnist/molester Bill Conlin among its Sports Reporters for an extended period.

This nonsense comes on the heels of ESPN driving disgraced Bruce "Interior Decorator" Pearl down our throats as an expert (at lying to NCAA investigators) along with Dancin' and Mumblin' Ray Lewis as he keeps trying to find his blood-stained cream suit in Atlanta while serving as the passionate NFL poster boy for fathering children out of wedlock. What a colossal pile of crap when an ESPN host asked Lewis - the network's top mind(backer) after Hugh Douglas departed - about how a player should conduct himself off the playing field! Thus we're not really blindsided when ESPN's journalistic integrity took "hits" as NFL pressure apparently led the Extra Sensitive Pious Network to refuse "to go all the way" in a concussion investigation project with Frontline and Miami columnist Dan LeBatard, a typical sanctimonious ESPN host, "gave" his baseball Hall of Fame vote to readers of Deadspin's snarky sports blog. Is it any surprise that Libaturd tried to ambush Bill O'Reilly on his radio show before the Fox News host hung up on him?

Essentially, what happened to pugnacious competition chasing down a real story among media outlets? Rather than chronic adoration, shouldn't they be like an acerbic town crier assuring us Kate's baby doesn't have Grandpa's ears? Instead, there should be a stop-and-frisk policy for the delusional press to see if they have any courage or intellect. For instance, ESPN is virtually immune to widespread criticism because most of the flacks aspire to work for the network alongside journalistic jewel Jalen "Uncle Tom" Rose.

Some members of the media seem to give Henderson a pass because they were among the first to promote him. But the press should always be uncomfortable, not orgasmic, in its pursuits even if they become a trendsetter. This corner designated North Carolina's Michael Jordan as national player of the year in 1982-83 when every other precinct anointed Virginia's Ralph Sampson. Does that mean UNC and iconic Jordan, especially since he can dunk at 50, deserve deference forevermore if his alma mater sports suspect academic credentials, he spends too much time gambling/womanizing, makes inane executive decisions or if one of his kids acts like a derelict?

If you were responsible for generating the first significant national publicity for Auburn's Charles "Round Mound of Rebound" Barkley, are you supposed to resemble most of the idolatry-practicing media and virtually ignore his numerous off-the-court transgressions or college hoops analysis as lame as his golf swing?

Americans deserve a skeptical honest media but most don't have the basketballs for the job and are as confused as Bradley Manning in who they are plus what they should be. As shamelessly one-sided as conservatives have asserted for years, excessive media malpractice finally discarded the pretense of objectivity. Once and for all, the amateur hour collection of misguided minions have been unmasked as aggressive advocates; not adversarial journalists.