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The media and Tua
Our Paid crew has access to pieces like this one, which will appear later this week at a national media site. If you haven’t upgraded to Paid, now’s the time!
Last week, we wrote about an NFL player’s deeply personal decision on whether to continue playing after suffering another in a series of concussions. This post examines how the media handled the topic. (Spoiler: Not great.)
So it’s semi-official: Tua Tagovailoa’s next decisions about not only his career but his health will be played out in real time, in front of a world that either does or doesn’t care about this or that aspect of Tagovailoa’s life, subject to open speculation, uninformed weigh-ins from the rampantly unqualified, and the usual X/Insta/etc. broadsides.
In other words: the media. You can pick which area of that land mass you decide to rest on, but it’s all part of the whole.
At times like these, you might find yourself wishing for a few authorities to actually be able to out-shout the fools and speak competently on a topic this important and this nuanced. But you’re thinking about some other point in history on the media timeline. You’ll have to search for those voices. They’re there, but you may have to work for it.