Dearest moderators,

Why is it ridiculous? It's a sports journalism message board, not a geopolitics board.

I mean, I get *wanting* to talk about it, but politics isn't part of the site's mission.

Maybe if we brought back NewsJournalists.com?

 

I feel very comfortable in the fact that I don't know what Crimea is. And ...

Just yes.

 

It's SportsJournalists, not SportsJournalism. Acceptable topics should be what sports journalists (and other members of our community) want to talk about.

 

Because the idea of a website is to attract an audience so that it can pay the bills if not make a profit. It isn't doing that on sports and journalism alone. Many if not most of the best threads here over the years have had little to do with sports or journalism.

 

How was that rousing season of sports journalism Sheep, Mystery Meat II? Rick Reilly for every answer, right?

I am excited for the return of The Odd Couple. The TV thread hasn't been the same since Sports Night got canned.

 

I used to think I was the least-informed person on this board re: current news events.

No longer.

 

But he knows Joe Paterno's shoe size.

 

I don't doubt for a second that you're comfortable in your ignorance.

 

Yes, by all means, you two sip a latte and congratulate yourselves. And IJAG ... I had that title taken from you long ago.

 

Ahem ...

Look, I've got no personal beef with politics threads. Hell, I post on 4chan's various boards; ain't nothing you guys can do can phase me. But there's a track record of shit going south in a hurry whenever politics rears its head, be it in an election-pegged thread or a containment board.

Again, just because people WANT to do something doesn't mean they have the RIGHT to. There's plenty of places to talk politics on the Internet.

 

If you post on 4Chan, you know that shit never really devolves too much here, not by the standards of the Internet at large.

 

It's true. We get some extended back-and-forths, and Baron will obsess about George Bush, while Starman melts down, but it rarely gets personal, or vulgar.