Stratification or an order of magnitude can help describe the future shock nature of what once identified itself as amateur football morphing into a Dennis Rodman wedding dress conference in a fashion show rivaling a FUBAR societal wardrobe malfunction.
The mutation into the bizarre and disturbing is as festive and vibrant as a swan awaiting takeoff from the runway of the suburban drag show circuit judged by Nancy Pelosi. And this is what is happening in the current ecosystem of what is quantified as “journalism”.
While the opinion of everybody matters as the collective of society plans and plots the next move for immortality, the subsequent background noise has reached decibel deafening and cancelling original thought to an extent that indictments are achieved through catch phrases as the pestilent is worshiped by the public watchdog of guilty before innocent and the perfection of passive aggressiveness fostered in the parents’ basement before unleashing a tirade of the nonsensical. Popular culture is a vehicle for onerous disdain, and the sporting action of crushing collisions on the gridiron is now at the center of ideological posturing from both sides of the spectrum.
Apparently, according to the digital portal of “Awful Announcing” that documents and evaluates the on-air performance of those behind the microphone and in front of the camera, where tales of sportscasters are regularly published, a high school football public address announcer (PA) in South Carolina, who’s job is simply alerting fans about the direct facts of the game crossed in the line making an off-color remark regarding the status of the South Carolina State football team for the entire stadium to hear.
Allegedly, the brief diatribe unleashed by the football PA of a private Christian school compared the Historically Black and University (HBCU) South Carolina State squad with the penal system and correctional institutions in general. In the wake of his remarks the announcer was swiftly relieved of his duties and eventually fired. Thankfully, a PA calling out “first and ten from the 25-yard-line” over the loudspeakers and abstaining from editorial content has not become obsolete. While the exact circumstances of the incident were not mentioned in the Awful Announcing post regarding the derivation from protocol, questions remain as to the primary source of information.
Two thoughts emerge initially after ingesting the article and the author’s thoughts- what is the context? This can be followed up by questioning, why is a “PA” formulating wry commentary regarding a topic that has nothing to do with the informing the crowd to the current status of the game? The thought, pardon the pun, was never addressed. The article is a glaring example of the five w’s being omitted and the viral virus of the reactionary overtaking the basis of logic, and is not the first or the last time in the Information Age that facts are a valuable commodity as the younger generations relentlessly produce content at the speed of light.
Again, there exists a stringent dynamic of protocol that dictates a reliable adherence to compliance in so called “media” and accuracy that was blatantly ignored for the sake of generating traffic in the style of the vileness of and prevalence of “click bait”. As the abbreviations within the news and opinion cycle are indicative of a diminished capacity for critical thinking, the vicious cycle of tainted information being shared to an audience already oblivious and naive continues to present a notable challenge for those supporting enlightenment and awareness in a world where within 15 seconds things can be forgotten, and life veers severely off-course and the fundamentals of existence and stability are lost in the wilderness of obscurity. This unsettling reality forces readers to visit multiple sources surrounding the expanse of the electronic wonderland to obtain the entire picture of an incomplete narrative, which in the end is a costly pursuit on a multitude of levels, as both time and money are valuable luxurious amid a world which awards ignorance and discourages the discerning.
