All-Star Article On Panthers

[cachoi]

Can you message me or post his twitter? I'd love to point out this editor that his journalist sucks bc he didn't even accurately get his "history" of cheerleading right. It started at Princeton and "officially" became an organized sport in 1898 via Johnny Campbell (University of Minnesota)...and in 1903 the first "cheer" fraternity was born. Oh, and they were primarily called yell squads in the beginning. I HATE HATE HATE the way journalism has become. No fact checking, embellishing stories, adding "fluff" in place of actual quality writing, out and out making things up, playing into stereotypes, and did I mention no fact checking? It takes all of FIVE minutes to look something up on the internet (using Google Scholar might I add, not just regular google). My grandmother (an editor and reporter for over 30 years) is somewhere rolling in her grave. It's inexcusable that an editor supports his "writer" (I'm not going to even dignify calling him a journalist), when his writer has such a blatant disregard for the basics of journalism 101. :mad:

It's @timmytyper. I agree, I love writing and would love to be a journalist if I had the chops for it. It's a shame that journalistic integrity rarely exists anymore. When I was reading the article, I just sensed that he didn't have an open mind at all while writing this. Why else would he focus on how the girls started a fire and took pictures of it or how many followers they have, besides to make them look like stereotypical dumb, conceited cheerleaders? I can't believe that was their cover piece or that the title was "Blood, Sweat and Cheers" when he hardly mentioned any of the blood and sweat that the girls put in.

 

[cheerisloving]

Scrolling through his twitter, you can kind of tell that they try to be edgy. That's why maybe why they followed the 'non barbies' because they are different style of cheerleader. Then the rest of it seemed overdone and the Panthers were the 'rebels'. Just a thought.

 

[xtremeteal4life]

Scrolling through his twitter, you can kind of tell that they try to be edgy. That's why maybe why they followed the 'non barbies' because they are different style of cheerleader. Then the rest of it seemed overdone and the Panthers were the 'rebels'. Just a thought.

He calls himself a liar in his profile......

 

[PullandPray23]

You could make a game out of find the error ;)

:D do I smell a drinking game! Welcome to my Panther Party "the official drinking game"

 

[Deleted member 1556]

That was pure trash, and not even well written trash. The only good thing was the pictures, and I'm sure that bozo didn't even take them.

 

[ufomom]

Too bad Texas Monthly did not do the piece. Mimi Schwartz is a much better writer and gets it more right than not (had familiarity with a piece she did on a very provocative topic and she hit it dead on most of the time.) Can we get a do-over.

I can't take that article seriously when they cannot even get the name of the gym correct on the cover. :mad:

 

[CAmamakat]

Too bad Texas Monthly did not do the piece. Mimi Schwartz is a much better writer and gets it more right than not (had familiarity with a piece she did on a very provocative topic and she hit it dead on most of the time.) Can we get a do-over.

I can't take that article seriously when they cannot even get the name of the gym correct on the cover. :mad:

She needs to do a real follow up piece with real facts and what really happens!! ;)

 

[whatsupWILLIS]

I honestly didn't finish the article. I saw how it wasn't going to be anything about how good the team truly was so I just stopped.

 

[elisekc9]

Am I the only one who found it odd that there were so many curse words in the article?

I think the author was trying to be "edgy"??? :rolleyes:

 

[Mom2K]

I think the author was trying to be "edgy"??? :rolleyes:

It's fairly typical of the magazine. Certainly not defending the article at all, but it was written in the style of most that appear in D.

 

[XTREMElyfierce]

without even reading this thread and just reading that article, i already knew that more than half of the article was misconstrued and could have been written MUCH better. luckily i'm sure most of the cheer world would know that some of this article is over exaggerated and NOT correct. unfortunately, however, people who have no idea about cheer athletics will believe this article.

 

[MomMomMamaMom]

I disliked the article for several reasons, but mostly for it's complete disregard of the pure athleticism that went into what this team accomplished. However, as a mom of a "rebel" type cheerleader, I did like that the girls weren't represented as pageant girls....small favors.

 

[kickdblcj]

I dont even know what to say...

 

[caobsession]

I assure you that much like myself, McKayla Maroney would be equally as unimpressed with this article as I was.

Unimpressed McKayla Maroney face all other this article.

 

[WorkToWin]

Was it perfect? DEFINITELY not. The focus should have been more about worlds with out a doubt... but I still liked the article overall, and I don't think it was as terrible as yall are making it out to be.