Today's Sign of the Impending Apocalypse: Dale Hansen Defending Jerry Jones

Look at that coat. Allsome.

Let’s by all means leave it to the old pros like Dale Hansen. Maybe he and Buzz Bissinger can get together over a bowl of Mueslix.

I’m going to watch Anchorman again tonight.

The coat is cool — but the tie makes the man.

Great commentary he makes lots of good points

that dude is abou 6 foot 6 tall

God the douchery is strong here. Dale Hansen and Jerry Jones are such twats.

I have no problem with what he said. I’m sympathetic to much of it.
 
But wasn’t Captain Journalism Dale Hansen just a tad too cozy with Troy Aikman and others during his time with the Dallas Cowboys? Recording albums together. Going out on the town. Chatting daily. That’s what led to the Switzer disagreement. He became Troy’s Boy, and Troy detested Switzer. (Rightfully).
 
Distance. From. Subjects. Dale.
 
Would that be accepted in someone with a real beat?
  
The truth is that sports journalism is an amusement. 95% of what they do is detailing bread and circus. The Jerry Jones piece is an extension of that. That it ran tells us more about our current societal interest than some erosion of Journalism. Sports journalism is the least important parcel in the Fourth Estate. How dare it be treated as…entertainment.
 
This isn’t the Public Watch beat on the City Council. It’s a bunch of guys reacting to games. Their constant posturing that this trifling racket is Watergate has always amused me.
 
If I may quote John Matuszak from North Dallas 40:
 
“Everytime I call it a game, you call it a business. Every time I call it a business, you call it a game.”
 
Substitute the word journalism for the word business, and there you have it.
 
Well, which is it?

Don’t you dare mention “Buzz” Bissinger in the same breath as Dale Hansen.

"Our business now too many times is a fat kid in a t-shirt in his mother’s basement eating Cheetos and writing his blogs. And we make it news."

HenryJames doesn’t wear T-shirts.

I heard Dale talk about this on ESPN radio a couple of nights ago. He probably was right. But he also was pining a bit about the day when he got so close to coaches and athletes and owners and wondered if we are in the beginning of the end of access to athletes through media.

I think it’s a ways off because it’s still good for business for the teams, but I suppose it’s possible.

Troy once called Switzer “as useless as the pope’s balls”.

“decline of journalism as we once knew it?” yeah, right… When? Back in the day when there was only three television stations and newspapers? Was it better then? Was it more reliable? Absolutely NOT! From the perspective of history, even Walter Cronkite turned out to be liar and a fraud reporting from Vietnam. Arrogant, self-important journalist such as Hansen want to control information so THEY can make the decisions on what they think people ought to hear and what to think about it. I think if the truth was really known, I think Hansen is jealous that he didnt have this JJ tidbit to weave into one of his diatribes.

Like most journalist, I also think he is delusional about how important he is and, to a greater extension, how important the evening news is. The whole nightly news has turned into an unwatchable interruption of police blotter reports, human interest stories, and should be done away with. Hansen is the fat kid he derides but all “growed” up. He nothing more than an old fat guy with a bad tie, eating his own ego writing in his cubicle, then bloviating on a network, and they “make it news.” If he cant “break” the news, then he wants to interject himself into “the news.” Really… the first network that breaks out of this mind-think and decides to can the evening or nightly news, is the station that will capture most of the market.

Randy Galloway had a similar article in the Star-telegram a couple of days ago:
Star-telegram http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/04/14/2115528/jerry-jones-gets-ambushed-while.html
The problem with most journalist is that they think THEY are given some mystical decree that makes them the arbiters of truth. That’s how it was back-in-the-day when the average person didnt have access to information and had to trust THEY told us – THAT was “journalism as we once knew it.” The Hansens and Galloways know that freedom of information takes away from their importance. With all the content on the internet nowadays, these guys have just become insufferable blowhards locked in a dying paradigm. Randy has a candid comment, “in any of my moments over the years of bar drinking with Jerry (there have been a few) if I had secretly videotaped that conversation, and then attempted to make his comments a story (without Jones’ next morning, on-the-record approval) for the newspaper…” He actually wants the freedom to do the same but cant… and derides those that do. As he states, “Score one again for the Jackass Generation.”

What the hell is wrong with eating Cheetos???

Yeah ok, but the real question nearly everyone is wondering: What’s the name of the suicide anchor he mentioned?

Hey Uncle Barky, he/she/it is dead, so naming them can’t hurt them.

Is the anchor Chip Moody? He had Parkinson’s, if I recall, and maybe Hodgkin’s too. He was the top anchor in town and was slowly wasting away. Maybe he Kevorkianed?

JJ tries to explain himself at a fundraiser last night:
http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=5095935

“Bill, first of all, is a real friend of mine,” Jones said Thursday evening at an American Diabetes Association fundraiser. "He is a great football coach. He probably has as good or better people skills than anybody I ever met. I have complete trust in him.

“The actual way I express myself is commonly known by my associates as a familiar, caring term of endearment, as you will. If I say to somebody that you’re not worth a flip, then that means I think you’re pretty good, certainly if I follow up with, I love you.”

You aint worth a flip is a “term of endearment” hahaha you’re a big worthless piece of crap… but I love you man. LOL I think JJ actually makes more sense when he is drunk.

Good guess, but Chip Moody didn’t die until 2001, that doesn’t fit the timeline others in the know have given (somewhere between 2 decades and “several decades ago.”)

Chip had cancer

Dale spoke at my high school athletics banquet in 1985. He showed up drunk, was funny as hell, and walked out of the door that night leaving behind a room full of 16- to 18-year-old fans for life.

First of all Dale is a talented guy. I’ve seen him speak at numerous functions, and he probably could have made a living as a stand-up comic. He’s that good. Dale has taken his considerable talents and combined it with a savvy understanding of the local market, (Cowboys coverage early and often) and made a name for himself… as well as a lot of money.

Having said that…. for Dale to criticize the way his station reports the news is incredibly hypocritical. What is embarrassing to journalism is that Belo hasn’t fired the fat windbag years ago. But in their defense it also says something about his talent that I still occasionally find myself watching him.

A few years ago he ran a clip during his sportscast of Michael Westbrook (when he was with the Redskins) savagely beating a teammate. He showed the clip four times on the 5 o’clock, four times at 6 o’clock and four times again at 10. He repeated the same sequence the following day. This is news? To this day he intersperses his Cowboys highlights with brief T&A clips of the cheerleaders, and hot chicks in the stands. Journalism at it’s best. In 2006 when Texas threw a pass on third and goal with less than 30 seconds on the clock and no timeouts while trailing to Dale’s beloved Nebraska, he accused Mack Brown during his sportscast of deliberately trying to cover the point spread.

Now Dale goes off on a two minute diatribe about his TV station showing a cell phone video of a drunk Jerry Jones shooting off his mouth?? This is the same guy who I’ve seen drunk in a local Dallas bar mugging down with a little lassie all evening (it wasn’t his wife). Unfortunately it was before cell phone cameras.

For us longtime Dallasites nothing Dale says anymore is surprising. I think he is scared that he is close to being put out to pasture, as well as the fact that he and Jerry Jones are more similar than he would like to admit. It’s typical Hansen using his "untouchable" position at WFAA to get on his soapbox because someone overruled King Dale. Dale has been an embarrassment to himself and to his employers for decades. He stays employed because he gets great ratings.

Dale often says "when they say it’s not about the money, it’s always about the money". Well when Dale says it’s not about him, it’s always about him. How do you know Dale Hansen is being hypocritical? His mouth is moving.

Nice to learn that Gerry Oher both reads this blog and is still bitter.

Valleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnch

I watch WFAA/Ch. 8’s newscasts, but turn the channel when this fat ass blowhard is on. The junior sportscasters are better.