How do we hold reporters responsible for their shitty reporting?

exactly what Ramsey Snow did to Theon in Season 3.  Identical in every capacity, including that evil "fake rescue."

I say we light a bag of poo and leave it as their front door.

Refer to him/her as a "journalist" (either in writing or air quotes if speaking) and add an overly-exagerated eye-roll (only while speaking because it's hard to express such while writing

maybe:   "Journalist" #eyeroll

I'll work on this and get back to you guys. 

Give them to the red god.  Only death may pay for shitty reporting.

Well, things change. Reporters could solidly believe something, (Harbaugh will NEVER leave the NFL) but see how things change.

People are allowed to change their mind, you know. Now, the search engine here isn't sophisticated enough to search on several fields. But if I was able to do a search for mgoblog posts in 2009 and 2010, written by Brian, about Harbaugh, I'm almost positive I would find some very definitive statements about how bridges had been burned, and he never wanted Harbaugh at Michigan again. And there were more than a few posters who felt the same way.

If you held every mgoblogger to every stupid post they put up here, well, it'd be pretty rough. We all say things and write things and believe things, and realize that things change. Same deal with reporters. Graciously allow them to change. (unless they're Drew Sharp:  I've had it with him.)

Kawakami deserves a beautiful upper decker

Don't follow them.  Don't RT them.  That's about it.

Don't read them or repost any of their information.

Mike Valenti wannabe. That's about as low as you can go.

Until people stop reporting stories like "I'm 99% sure Harbaugh is coming unless a last minute change", very little can be done to damage their reputations outside a specific fan base. Leave yourself an out and you can never be wrong. National sports media is the best at this trick.

 

If Harbaugh doesn't come here, nobody outside the UM fanbase is going to care because when you have hundreds of thousands of listeners/readers on ESPN, you can afford to piss off whoever you want as long as you keep the majority happy.

I have never understood why people are getting so into this part of the story, so upset, etc.... A guy has his sources and he reports on what they said. I'd bet that a few of these guys are pressured into making a call quicker than they'd probably like to by their bosses and to speak more confidently about this as well, who knows.

Bottom line we as a society are as much to blame as anyone else for wanting this type of information at our fingertips and since were like that they give us what we want This is why mock draftsm twitter, etc are all so popular nowadays. People love to hear about rumors or predicitions.

Bottom line I love the way the world is nowadays compared to before. This coaching search has been something I'm sure most of us will never never forget as it's made all of our lives a lot more fun these last 3 weeks. It was less than 15 years ago and maybe less that most of us here waited for the newspaper or the sports stories on TV in the evening to give us any kind of information.

There's always going to be people wrong when people start making predictions. I'm sure in the future some of these guys that were bashing will have the right guy telling them the right stuff and some of these guys that we feel have been so smart will end up with egg on their face one day also. 

Just get me Harbuagh here and I could care less who said what and when. 

Castration. Maybe.

I don't mind them being wrong, but I hate the trolling. I'll never listen to Cowherd again. 

If the negative reporters have maliciously dismissed UM, they deserve a good beat-down.  But giving them more attention can be just what they want.   Publicly calling out their sponsors would be more likely hurt them in the pocketbook.

Yet, the non-malicious reporters, who just made negative predictions, have actually have done us a favor.  They have maintained media attention and reiterated how desirable a coach Harbaugh would be for any team.  They also have decreased expectations.  That should increase our elation at the announcement and heighten its public significance.

Even those who intended to harm UM have actually done the opposite. 

Don't click their links.

I haven't clicked a Freep article since 2007.  You don't see me creating whiny threads about reporters.

BTW, Kawakami broke the Barry Bonds story with a lot of fact based stuff -- just becuase he isn't reporting what you want to read/hear doesn't mean he's a hack.

Drew Sharp is a hack.

Because it equally celebrates bloggers or online personalities that unequivocally said he would come based upon no info of their own.

I know people in a variety of places regarding this story, within UM and just real world, and it's very much true that Harbaugh has led people to believe he wants to stay in the nfl due to how he's handled this. Schefter hasn't been wrong, he's just leaned harder to one side.

Nothing is set in stone but UM also doesn't have a formal Plan B. It's likely happening (90%)

Who cares about "holding them accountable"? While we all care greatly about who Michigan hires, it's not like a reporter being wrong has consequences that actually affect persons' lives.

If we get Harbaugh, I will be much more interested in what he does going forward, rather than finding a way to make the reporters look stupid.

This will probably happen:

Let's worry about holding reporters responsible for "shitty reporting" on subjects like accountability for public officials and science before we tackle the issue of talking-out-your-ass sports reporting.

Most sports news is a subset of entertainment news, in the same class as 'whet celebs will wear to Taylor Swift's X-Mas Eve Party!!!".

Really only the economic value of our football program makes our coaching search a serious news story on any level, which I say despite my personal emotional investment in these events.

And when major corporations replace CEOs, there can be rampant speculation just like this cycle.

Regardless of the methods used by modern media, we need to maintaiin some perspective.

I'm one of the biggest slappys for our University and had a difficult time initially understanding how JH could tolerate coaching games in EL and W Lafafayette after prowling the sidelines of a Super Bowl.  Hell, he was inches of stealing his way into the big game as a pro player ('96).  He's insanely competitive in a way that even most coaches aren't.  So why wouldn't he want to win an NFL championship?  

As the days go by, the business case can be made for returning to college for a number of reasons.  As a slappy, I hope the "done deal" sentiment is accurate.

Is arson off the table?

what do we do to Gregg Henson/Jeff Moss/Steve Lorenz?

How about not posting links to crap that is obviously clickbait or trolling? Hell there were multiple threads about something colin cowherd said.

Shove a living snake up their ass! (movie reference in case you missed it.)