On October 10, 2022, Auron MacIntyre famously tweeted, "You don't hate journalists enough. You think you do, but you don't." And MacIntyre wasn't the first person to express this sentiment, either. Earlier in August of that same year Carl Witmer may have been the very first one to declare, "No matter how much you hate the media it’s not enough." Naturally, many others have followed suit and more or less said the same thing. If you want to know why I hate the media as much as these other people, check out the headline of this story from ESPN, of all places: "Vice President Vance Fumbles Buckeyes' Championship Trophy." Okay, so the anonymous author from Associated Press earns a single point for the use of proper grammar, and that is awarded begrudgingly. That same author loses all the other points by writing the rest of the story that goes with the article. Follow this hyperlink to read the story at ESPN, but first watch the accompanying video to see how exactly the Vice President "fumbled" the trophy--it literally fell apart when he tried to pick it up because the trophy wasn't attached to its base. The word "fumble" typically conveys a sense of carelessness or recklessness. In football, a fumble is almost always a bad thing. A fumble is a blunder, and in football it means a failure to maintain possession of the ball. It most often describes a mistake by the ball carrier. Even a forced fumble is still a turnover. You can't sugarcoat it--a fumble is an error, a mistake. Furthermore, as you watch the video, please notice that Ohio State running back TreVeyon … [Read more...]